Everymen
03-04-2005, 22:59
In the United Kingdom, France, and Germany the majority of people would describe themselves as Christians.
This does not mean that they are 'Christian' in the sense that Southern Baptists in the US are, or that they are Christian in the actual sense of practising the religion!
I'm just sick and tired of people say 'well Christians are the majority in the western world'. In Western Europe they really aren't the majority. They're simply Christian on the census because that is the religion with which they indentify themselves with culturally, it is a hereditory thing. Barely anyone in the UK attends church, and the actual 'beliefs' of the majority would be described as Agnostic. The same is happening in France and Germany and the Netherlands, as well as many of the Scandinavian countries. Secularism is not the abnormality in the western world, Christianity and rigid adherence to it IS.
This does not mean that they are 'Christian' in the sense that Southern Baptists in the US are, or that they are Christian in the actual sense of practising the religion!
I'm just sick and tired of people say 'well Christians are the majority in the western world'. In Western Europe they really aren't the majority. They're simply Christian on the census because that is the religion with which they indentify themselves with culturally, it is a hereditory thing. Barely anyone in the UK attends church, and the actual 'beliefs' of the majority would be described as Agnostic. The same is happening in France and Germany and the Netherlands, as well as many of the Scandinavian countries. Secularism is not the abnormality in the western world, Christianity and rigid adherence to it IS.