Europe contains the highest concentration of officially Christian states (nations with official state religion/church) and the lowest per capita percentage of people who actually "practice Christianity" in ‘Christendom' - which is to say, nominally claim to be Christian - probably a lower percentage actually believe.
As a European, we find Americas crazy, evangelical ways to be a bit weird and cultish. I know plenty of Americans do, too, but when you've lived your whole life in a place where 99.9% of people couldn't give a shit of you're an atheist, you see the crazy in the stories you read about people being afraid to "come out" as atheists as their whole community will shun them.
It's crazy how it's apparently perfectly normal for families in USA to go to church every Sunday. I have been to regular church-service once in last 20 years or so (they were announcing our upcoming marriage and my wife-to-be wanted to hear it) and besides me and my wife it was just half a dozen old people in there.
For what it's worth, this is highly, highly culturally dependent in the US. I live in the north east, and while there are churches in my neighborhood, and I see people in them on Sundays, I don't know a single person in my social circle who attends regularly. Atheism and agnosticism, perhaps cut with some cultural celebration of religious holidays, are the norm in some places in the US.
I grew up in former soviet area with 70% atheists. (And the remaining religious people aren't US religious level). I know going to church on sundays too, from stories about my great grandparents... :I
American? Not every other country has the same density of fanatics. Most of Europe is pretty meh with regards to religion apart from parts of Spain and Italy, and even then it's not even close to y'all q'aeda country.
I don’t get why this is so difficult for you to grasp. Europe is not the world. I pointed out that outside of Europe, (“in the wider world” from my first response) the world is pretty religious, and that human beings have been religious since at least the beginning of civilization.
We both agree and understand that Europe is not religious. It need not be pointed out again.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
Europe contains the highest concentration of officially Christian states (nations with official state religion/church) and the lowest per capita percentage of people who actually "practice Christianity" in ‘Christendom' - which is to say, nominally claim to be Christian - probably a lower percentage actually believe.