In Europe, God Is (Not) Dead?

Question

Christian groups are growing, faith is more public. Is supply-side economics the explanation..

In a country where barely 3% of the population goes to church each week, the affair seemed just another step in Christian Europe’s long march toward secularism. Then something odd happened: A national furor erupted. A conservative bishop announced a boycott. A leftist radical who became a devout Christian and talk-show host denounced the biblical purge in newspaper columns and on television. A young evangelical Christian organized an electronic letter-writing campaign, asking Scandic: Why are you removing Bibles but not pay-porn on your TVs?
Sweden is not as secular as we thought,” says Christer Sturmark, head of Sweden’s Humanist Association

God’s tentative return to Europe has scholars and theologians debating a hot question: Why? The Swedish arm of Gideons, a Bible distribution group, recently gave the chain 10,000 New Testaments in Swedish and English.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

what the hell are you on about and people don't give a s**t about god as life is too short to care any more

Answer 2

My only thoughts

You consider what happens in Sweden as indicative of the rest of Europe - sorry it isn't (and that's what you are basing your argument on - the fact that one group gave a few bibles. And even your use of that is flawed as you have taken the one comment with no indication of the context it was meant in).

As for the bit about christianity growing, that goes against figures I've seen elsewhere

Answer 3

The reporter is trying to make a comeback out of a few incidents. Yes, we know there are still a few practicing Christians in those countries, and they will be a vocal minority, but Sweden is not returning en masse to Christianity unless it somehow closes all its schools and plunges back into ignorance.

Answer 4

I think it is a reaction to the creeping Islamization of Europe. I think Europeans see a growing number of Muslims in their counties demanding special rights and are rallying around Christianity.

The history of Christianity is essentially the history Europe, so it makes sense that this reaction would take place.

Answer 5

for a lot of human beings in the present day God remains a ethical dictator from which they get their education from. a lot of human beings ask the place morality comes from if no longer the Bible, as though they have on no account heard of rationality. Nietzsche's fact in simple terms opens up a clean paradigm the place human beings define themselves outdoors of non secular morality. One reason Rand exchange into in a position to jot down Objectivism exchange into because of the fact of Nietzchian concept. God remains a private theory, because it has continuously been because of the fact the dawning of guy's extensive unsleeping information, ineffective or no longer, there is greater to it.

Answer 6

2 chronicles 7:14
If people are exposed to the truth of the bible and the gospel they will respond.If churches succumb to the ways of the world and decide the world has a better plan to increase members you see the results.The gospel has always brought revivals,not denominational doctrines or the ways of the world.

Answer 7

Sweetie, Europe is a large continent. It has many nations. In most well-developed prosperous countries religion is breathing its lasts breaths. But it is a slow process. It will take centuries.

Why don't you come over and have a look around? It is an interesting place.

Answer 8

I am afraid you a flogging a dead horse. Europe is going more and more secular and 10000 bibles when we are looking at millions of people is irrelevant.

Answer 9

God is not the God of the dead,but of the living...praise his name for his undying love towards men and women. God does not always need a majority to get is word across. He is unique and unlimited so much so that he loves confounding the purposes of man by using the minority to make things work. That is what gets mans attention. God is exciting he is not dull.

Answer 10

Actually European nations are accepting Pagan religions at a faster rate. Some have even declared certain Pagan traditions as their own. Where DO you get this information from????

Answer 11

In Europe God is not dead. That's because of all those sightings, isn't it. Just like Elvis