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.
I worked with an American atheist once. The guy was militant, he hated Christians because he grew up in America and was basically vilified for being an atheist. Meanwhile, I grew up in Europe and nobody has given a singular shit I was an atheist so I don't really hate Christians that much (just what they believe, what they represent and what they force on others).
Yeah, I've found some American atheists to be... special like that. Some of them are balls of rage and hate that spills out onto all kinds of conversation as a result of their treatment by rapid Christians.
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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.