Born Again?

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Is Christianity dead in Europe? According to this Wall Street Journal article, there may be a revival:

In Europe, God Is (Not) Dead - WSJ.com

Some of the article’s highlights include a theory about how religious monopolies became complacent, losing their flocks. More religious competition yields more attractive religions:

Some scholars and Christian activists, however, are pushing a more controversial explanation: the laws of economics. As centuries-old churches long favored by the state lose their monopoly grip, Europe's highly regulated market for religion is opening up to leaner, more-aggressive religious "firms." The result, they say, is a supply-side stimulus to faith.

Not everyone agrees:

The notion that Adam Smith's invisible hand reaches into the spiritual realm has many detractors. Steve Bruce, a professor of sociology at Aberdeen University in Scotland, says market theory "works for cars and soap powder but it does not work for religion." Christianity in Europe, he says, has reached the point of no return, like a dying language doomed because too few people transmit its vocabulary to their children.