Is there a global trend to purge religion from the face of the earth?”
It’s success is being challenged. My area is Christianity, I think the true Christian Church is hurting in the West. Yet, “spirituality” “belief in God (god) (goddess) (gods) (goddesses) is not in decline even in the West. The New Age movement is thriving. Additionally, countries in the East, South Korea (the strongest educationally in the world right now, look it up) is becoming more and more Christian. A large portion of the population gets up early in the morning everyday to pray and study Scripture together. Christians are having a growing influence on their government. China, though the Christian Church is still persecuted to a degree, is believed to have a huge population of vital Christians. Such a large population that Christians there are said to outnumber not only “Christians” in the USA but there are possibly more “Christians” in China than our entire U.S. population. So demographics may be changing. Additionally, I know atheists may consider themselves “enlightened” but I d