This BBC headline is shocking! What is even more shocking is the list of nations that are becoming irreligious: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. You can see from this list that these are all historically Christian nations. Three are English speaking countries. Some are historically Catholic; some are historically Reformed; and one is historically Lutheran. You can read the article at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197
How can this be happening? What are the causes? How can the religion of the martyrs waste away to extinction???
How can those who once sang: The Word they still shall let remain Nor any thanks have for it; He’s by our side upon the plain With His good gifts and Spirit. And take they our life, Goods, fame, child, and wife, Though these all be gone, Our vict’ry has been won; The Kingdom ours remaineth, abandon the faith?
The decline of Christianity in these nations did not happen overnight. It began with complacency. It began when people took their Christian heritage for granted. It began when parents and grandparents thought little of passing the faith on to their children.
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