Europe is the Prodigal Continent

In other parts of the world, atheism and agnosticism represent an insignificant fraction of the population. In Europe, these ideas are mushrooming like a philosophical atom bomb, growing from 1.7 million to 130 million over just the last century. Just as secularism has choked the life of the church in Western Europe, atheistic Marxism has strangled the church in Eastern Europe. At this point in time in Europe, only a tiny percentage of individuals attend church, or even understand the Gospel. Most Europeans have a family history in some form of Christianity but now, like the prodigal son, have turned away. The following graph illustrates Europe’s radical de-Christianization.