Did the Enlightenment manage to break the Christian faith experience after all, so that today's Christians have more in common with today's pagan revivalists than they realize? The fact that people in traditionally Christian countries seem to have lost interest in maintaining the forms of the religion suggests that Christianity in its former strongholds has begun to decline.
Of course, Christians themselves apparently come up with the idea that religions have expiration dates - their contrived BC/AD division in history. Has Christianity therefore entered its own late, BC-like era?
First paragraph: Seems like wishful thinking to me. Christians still run the world.
Second paragraph: It seems like you are asking if the Messiah is about to return. I guess I'd say No?
With tongue less in cheek, its incredibly hard to imagine a religion today pulling off the same kind of growth that Islam/Christianity did during their explosive first couple of centuries. Culture is all wrong for that sort of thing.
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