What is the main reason why Europe is turning their back on the religion that created their rich culture?

Question

The religion I am talking about is, of course, Christianity?

Answer 1

Err would that be the religion that held back European culture for at least 1500 years. You did know that Christianity suppressed Greek learning for at least that long, and the flowering of European culture arose as a result of usurping Christianity. In fact, Greek learning was preserved by Islamic universities.

Christianity was the obstacle to European culture, the vile, dirty, filthy ruination of all that was good and decent and learned for century after century after century.

Its gone, and good riddance.

Answer 2

science has overtaken it, and crusades ain't really politically correct anymore.

Answer 3

The biggest reason is that for so long they have been forced into it. It is like being made to go to school, if you are forced into it you are really glad when you don't have to go. If you never had it before or weren't forced into it, you might think it is something interesting and you can do it on your own time and way. Also the religion in Europe was constricted and did not adapt to the times like here. Our religious freedoms here in the Western Hemisphere are the reason why we are so religious as a society.

And for those who are saying Christianity was the cause of the lack of development in the Dark Ages are wrong!!!!!! It helped hold the Western Roman Empire for an extra 100 or 200 years before total collapse and held the Byzantine Empire together for much longer. The most educated people who were the ones preserving Classical knowledge were monks. If Christianity never existed, the Dark Ages would have started much faster, reading and literacy would have completely seized, and European new nations without the medium of Christianity to hold people together would have been slow to develop and less expansive and less powerful. Also during the revival of the Renaissance, the church was a major sponsor. And without the Latin knowledge preserved by the monks and the Greek knowledge acquired to western during the Crusades, there would have been no Renaissance.

Answer 4

It's for a variety of reasons. The Catholic religion for instance is far too wealthy, stubbornly non progressive and had been plagued with scandals like the paedophile priests. It's against the use of the pill and contraceptive and marriages for priests and is against  allowing nuns to give mass. All popes up to now are invariably white and chosen according to internal politics.

As for other types of Christians I think that some of them like the Evangelists that they are stationary.

Apart from that the world is getting more materialistic and for those who seeks spirituality religion doesn't offer all the answers.  Islam has now become topical but It doesn't really attract Christians to migrate to it because many people are skeptically about religion as a whole, while if Muslim were allowed to migrate to Christianity without fear of being persecuted several would.

I believe that with time both Christianity and Islam will decline in the next generations because they are against progress and not environmentally tuned but man centered, while I feel that Buddhism will stay strong and will get stronger because it's not really a religion but a logical way of life, besides it doesn't clash with science or any other creed.

Ref: I'm agnostic but I sympathise with Buddhism.

Answer 5

Laziness.  

Answer 6

because in this day and age the only religion allowed to spread is islam.  

Too many fake liberals in Europe who claim to want the decline of religion but then do nothing to stop (they actually support!) the fastest growing religion in the world.  

Islam is the new religion of Europe and the no-one is turning it's back on it!

Answer 7

Because it is a biblical prophecy?  

Answer 8

Because now is the time for logic and reason. Nobody can deny that religion has played a major part in European culture (for good and ill), but this is the 21st century and there should no place for superstition to rule our lives anymore.

Answer 9

Probably because they are progressing forward and out growing it. Its been the main religion over there for a very long , over a thousand years, and its normal for things like this to happen. One religion declines while another rises. Its the cycle of religion.  

Answer 10

Because they are growing out of it.

Answer 11

Christianity didn't create their rich culture.

The Greek civilizations were not Christian, but Pagan.

The Romans gained their great empire as Pagans, not Christians. When they became Christians, they lost it all.

During the Dark Ages, Christianity was the religion of Europe...

Much of Southern Europe was conquered by Islam which brought with it technological and scientific advances.

The current wave of enrichment in Europe is the result of the Industrial Revolution and colonialism of the 18th/19th Century. Nothing to do with Christianity there.

Christianity is a religion, not something which is to produce wealth for believers. In fact, didn't Jesus say, "It's much easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven"?

Answer 12

And yet, they're letting the Muslims do whatever they d**n well please. Honestly, they should just give England to the Muslims and move to the arctic. People need to recognize acts of war when they see it and act immediately and not wait until it's too late.

Answer 13

They could be turning their back on christianity, because of a long history of religious intolerance that culminated in the n**i's final solution.

Answer 14

It is amusing to see that it was actually in Muslim universities that those that triggered the renaissance actually got educated.

Answer 15

actually, rebellion against that rebellion, such as starting to turn academic and artistic focus back towards humanity. Yes, Christianity is the reason for all of the cathedrals, but the Renaissance was at first actually considered heresy.  

Answer 16

they saw the Emperor naked, while Christianity said he was clothed.

Answer 17

It's called progress.

Answer 18

Because of the hatred and destruction that comes with religion

Answer 19

Because it is only good for weddings and funerals now.   The Archbishop of Canterbury is way off center....he feeds the flock with his empty words..  

Answer 20

I can only speak of Britain, because I don't think that yet applies to a lot of eastern europe, in medievel times the church had a great deal of power and influence, the monestaries were centeres of business, they owned much of the land and housing, the monks were among the few who could really read and write and saved many documents and books, of course religion inspired great architecture, although ostensebly grand in order to glorify god, it was really to glorify the church and impress the people who could never see such things anywhere other than in churches and cathedrals and to frighten them.

However, in Britain, not nessasarily indevidualy, but culturally and historically, we never have liked being ordered about, by Elizabethan times we were always trying to ban catholism, because we didn't want to be under the thumb ot the vatigan and the pope, we invented the church of England which is wishy-washy and doesn't really believe in anything very much and certainly isn't very demanding.

Most of the progress we have made, and which made us rich and a power in the world way beyond our size, was due to unerring independance, staying ahead in millitary innovation and later on to the industrial revolutiion.

Historically we reject anything that dictates to us from afar, even if it is to our detriment, when the Romans were here they did great things for our trade and standard of living, but as soon as they left, we rejected all of it, including many of the things which would have been well worth keeping.

Christianity in Europe has not changed with the times as it has in the USA, with all sorts of offshute churches and so forth, because we either like the old stuff, or arn't religious at all.  Many people consider themselves spiritual and believe in God, but don't believe in or wish to be influeced by the church or any particular relgion, it tends to be more of a private and indevidual thing:)

Answer 21

They Aren;t its the other intruding religions that are the problem    

Answer 22

Because religion keeps progress from happening ie,  the Dark Ages.

Answer 23

I believe Christians call it "free will." Then again...I would say that they aren't any different from the rest of the world.

Answer 24

Because they have made progress past the mythology of Christianity.

Answer 25

The same reason the U.S.A turned its back on slavery, which created its rich culture, economy, history, country in general.

Answer 26

Christianity didn't create our rich culture, it replaced our pagan festivals and passed them off as their own. I'm glad we're finally getting rid of it in favour of our traditional nature worship.

Answer 27

Perhaps the same reason some Americans want to turn their back on science that has made them rich: ingratitude and stupidity.