Christianity looses people in Europe and USA

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Dear friends,

 

Regarding the FALSE statement that Christianity is growing in the

world by one member of the group, here are real numbers:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Europe

 

Today, theism is losing prevalence in Europe in favour of atheism,

and religion losing prevalence in favor of secularism. European

countries have experienced a decline in church attendance, as well as

a decline in the number of people professing a belief in a god. The

Eurobarometer Poll 2005found that, on average, 52% of the citizens of

EU member states state that they believe in a god, 27% believe there

is some sort of spirit or life Force while 18% do not believe there

is any sort of spirit, god or Life Force. 3% declined to answer.

According to a recent study (Dogan, Mattei, Religious Beliefs in

Europe: Factors of Accelerated Decline), 47% of Frenchmen declared

themselves as agnostic in 2003.This situation is often called " Post-

Christian Europe " . A decrease in religiousness and church attendance

in western Europe (especially Belgium, France, Germany, the

Netherlands and Sweden) has been noted, but there is an increase in

Eastern Europe, especially in Greece and Romania (2% in 1 year). The

Eurobarometer poll must be taken with caution, however, as there are

discrepancies between it and national census results. For example in

the United Kingdom, the 2001 census revealed over 70% of the

population regarded themselves as " Christian " with only 15%

professing to have " no religion " . It should be noted that the

majority of those that purported to be " Christian " did so nominally.

This does not indicate any belief or non-belief in a deity.

 

 

Now the case of Christians in USA:

 

Despite its status as the most widespread and influential religion of

the US, Christianity is undergoing a continuous relative decline in

demographics. While the absolute number of Christians rose from 1990

to 2001, the Christian percentage of the population dropped from

88.3% to 76.5%.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

 

In USA contrary to what is beleived the buddhists are growing faster

than muslims. In a poll from 2001 Muslims were 0.6 % and Buddhists

0.5 %. Now in a recent survey in 2007, Buddhists are 0.7% and Muslims

stayed at 0.6%.

 

 

On the other hand, in Australia the two Major percentage increase in

recent years was by Hinduism and Buddhism.

 

Best regards,

 

Carlos