The National Secular Society says that aggressive French religious lobbies are in a sustained attack on French secularism

 On April 10, the National Secular Society declared that aggressive French religious lobbies are in a sustained attack on French secularism:  Religious bodies in sustained attack on French secularism.

The calls to end secularism in France, Europe and other places  is going to accelerate and not diminish. Secularism is an unsustainable sand castle that is going to face bigger and bigger waves of religious conservatism. Please see: The rise of religious conservatism and the decline of secularism

Creationism growing in France

Creationism is growing in France

French scholars say evangelicalism is likely the fastest growing religion in France

French creationist leader interested in the Question  Evolution! Campaign

French creationist leader interested in the Question Evolution! Campaign

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Bad news for atheists in France! The atheist Dr. Niles Barber is not going to like hearing this!

On July 10, 2012, I published article entitled Does atheism thrive on economic prosperity? Does religion prosper when people are desperate and ignorant?

In that article I cited the work of the atheist Dr. Niles Barber who wrote:

Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe.

In my new study of 137 countries (1), I also found that atheism increases for countries with a well-developed welfare state (as indexed by high taxation rates). 

 In response, I wrote:

 Perhaps, an argument can be made that increased prosperity plus socialism (which is an ideology of the secular left so atheistic thought would be expected to be more prevalent to begin with) increases atheism....

Well, it seems as if secular France is headed toward a LOT of economic pain and the secular elite in France appear to know this.  The Labour Minister of France just declared that France is "totally bankrupt".

My, my, my! The atheist Dr. Niles Barber is not going not like hearing this!  How can you have a generous welfare state in a bankrupt country?  What are lazy atheists who lack the Protestant work ethic going to do now? Break down and humbly pray for a job to the God they know exists?  And we know that many so-called internet atheists know that God exists. See: Atheist admits that evidence doesn't matter to him

For the full story, please read the articles:  France "Totally Bankrupt" Says Labour Minister; Inappropriate or Inaccurate? and Secular French leaders will play a key role in discrediting secular leftists and their ideologies such as Darwinism

Will Christian evangelicalism continue to be the fastest growing religion in France?

So will Christian evangelicalism continue to the best the fastest growing religion in France?

Please read these resources and decide for yourself:

French scholars say evangelicalism is likely the fastest growing religion in France

Immigrant churches are spreading fast in France

Global decline of atheism and the global rise of creationism and Christianity

France and creationism

Social unrest in Europe altering its religious landscape

The future of European Darwinism and atheism is bleak

Vive le biblical creationism in France! Au revoir, Monsieur Darwin!

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15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15


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Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: Godless religions

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Secular French leaders will play a key role in discrediting secular leftists and their ideologies such as Darwinism

Darwinism was one of the foundation stones of communism (see: Darwinism and communism and Marxism, law and evolution: Marxist law in both theory and practice).  In addition, European socialist leaders have been hostile to biblical creationism (see: When will Europe wake up? ).

Also, unlike most liberal economics academics, Peter Schiff the owner of EuroPacific Capital was amongst the financial analysts who predicted the 2008 economic crisis.

John Browne of EuroPacific Capital wrote in a January 18, 2013 article entitled France And The UK Could Be The Lynchpins Of Europe which indicated:

Over the past two months, Europe’s problems seem to have disappeared from the headlines. However, the new French Socialist government is pushing ahead with policies that favor significantly higher government spending, greater regulation of business and commerce, and severely higher taxes on high earners. The long term effects of these policies, which I believe will lead to further economic decline, may be given fresh scrutiny if France is drawn into a lasting conflict in West Africa as a result of its surprise intervention in Mali last week...

French President Sarkozy was a Europhile. He conducted French policy in lock step support of German initiatives. However, his successor, President François Hollande, is an ardent Socialist. His policies are leading France towards a possible economic disaster on par with those facing Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIGS). Intimating that France was a potentially mortal threat to the EU, the Economist’s cover for the November 17th - 23rd 2012 issue carried the headline,‘The time-bomb at the heart of Europe.’ An open ended commitment to defend France’s former West African colonies against Islamist incursions from the Sahara could fast track a fiscal crisis. Whereas the economies of most of the PIGS were small enough to be bailed out, France has the world’s sixth largest economy. It is far too big for a bailout without threatening the economies of Germany and the UK.

Darwinism, atheism, agnosticism and socialism are secular religions promoted by secular minded governments of Europe (see: Darwinism and atheism are religions). If these governments fail, it will certainly cause these secular religions to be more closely examined by its populace and in the world at large.  In 2011, the religious and political scholar Professor Eric Kaufman wrote of the exhaustion of secular religions. We can see this exhaustion in the dwindling popularity of internet atheism and Darwinist websites which began in 2007.  See: Decline of internet atheism. and  The 2004 to 2007 publicity campaign for atheism was not sustainable. Public interest is not coming back
 

In addition, there is more infighting within the atheist community at the present time (see: Atheist infigthing and Freethoughtblogs ). This can't be helping the esprit de corps of the atheist movement and I read of atheist activists dropping out of the atheist movement because of it. It's clear that those holding secular ideologies lack coherent ideologies which offer reasonable explanations of the world so it is not surprising that their communities are pandemoniums.

Also, when do sports teams often engage in bickering? When things are going well or when they are losing?  It is obvious that those holding secular ideologies are unable to intellectually defend their nonsense and that they are losing the fight when it comes to the world at large (See: Global atheism).   For example,  the Christian philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig challenge the British Human Society and Richard Dawkins to a debate and they both ducked the debate offer. Creation Ministries International offered to to debate the members of the Global Atheist Conference in 2010 and they refused to accept their debate offer. See: 21 century atheism is well-known for its cowardice

Professor Eric Hoffman in an academic paper entitled Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century wrote concerning religious conservatives prevailing against weakened secularism:

Ethnicity and race may succumb to liberal modernity, but committed religious populations cannot be assimilated to liberal secularism fast enough to compensate for their demographic advantage in a world of plunging fertility and growing migration. In the end, it is a battle between religious fertility on the one hand, and, on the other, religious decline through the 'assimilation' of religious offspring into secularism. This paper argues that the weakness of secularism and a widening secular-religious fertility gap points toward a religious victory...

The principle of tolerating and 'celebrating' diversity is a corollary of postmodern relativism which opens up space for antimodern religious 'diversities' to take root. If they are demographically-powerful religious movements like Islamism or evangelical Chrisianity, they will exploit this weakness to progressively erode the hegemony of western secular humanism....

In the Europe of tomorrow, immigration and religious fertility will increase the proportion of committed Muslims and Christians, many from the developing world. It may seem fanciful to imagine a moral conservatism uniting white and nonwhite Christians as well as Muslims against 'secular humanists'. However, a version of this process has occurred in the United States, and it can be argued that the cocktail of cultural relativism, secular exhaustion and demographic change is even more potent in Europe than America. The division between native ethnic groups and immigrant groups is currently more important in Europe, but as the Muslim and religious Christian minorities grow, they will become as important for conservative politicians as the religious Hispanics of America whom the Republicans have so assiduously courted. At some point, it will make more electoral sense for European conservatives to appeal to a trans-ethnic coalition of moral conservatives than it will to stress anti-immigrant themes and ethno-nationalism. The liberal-left will find it extremely difficult to craft a defense of secularism given its investment in cultural relativism, the exhaustion of its secular religions, and its laissez-faire attitude to demographic change.

Standing back from the fray, we can think of demography as the achilles heel of
liberalism.

France and biblical Christianity
 
French scholars say evangelicalism is likely the fastest growing religion in France

Immigrant evangelical churches are a fast growing movement in France
 

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A collection of our articles on European creationism

Immigrant evangelical churches are a fast growing movement in France. Now is the time for creationism to spread in France!

Yesterday, a member of our Question Evolution! Campaign group had a very cordial and productive conversation with someone who has been very active in the French speaking creationist community. The person gave us key contacts in France and Canada when it comes to Christian creationists. We are really looking forward to talk to these people given the recent refinement of our plan to widely disseminate the 15 questions for evolutionists.

France and creationism? Why now?

On July 2, 2012, the French religious website French Windows reported:

Evangelical churches are a fast-growing movement in France. Mostly related to the Francophone world (According to the La nouvelle France protestante 2011 book, there is around 40 millions of French-speaking Protestants in the World), they are often poor, and have a hard time finding proper worship places.

To read an article on this matter see the Global Post article Evangelicals accuse French officials of discrimination

Where are the evangelical immigrants coming from? 

Global Christianity is exploding in Africa and in the Eastern World. Also, secular populations have sub replacement level of births and often resort to immigration and so it is not surprising that evangelicals from other other countries are starting to become a fast growing movement in France (France had colonies in Africa). Plus, religious people often have significantly larger families which can have a substantial impact over time. See: Religious families vs. secular families and birth rates

Professor Eric Kaufmann using a multitude of demographic studies argues in an academic paper entitled Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century that the decline of atheism in terms of its global adherents is an established trend that will persist for the foreseeable future and the rate of decline of global will accelerate. In the Western World, due to immigration and the higher birth rates of religious people, Kaufman writes: "Committed religious populations are growing in the West, and will reverse the march of secularism before 2050."

History and a recent study of Georgetown University teach us that atheism and evolutionism are not strong ideologies if they are confronted.

For more information please see:

Georgetown University study provides two clues to shrinking atheism faster

Overrunning Darwinism through internet evangelism, radical pricing (free) and wide distribution

In due time, amiable and industrious French speaking Christian evangelical immigrants will become more and more influential in France. Do you remember what happened to Christianity in the Roman Empire? Of course, this may bode well for Christian creationism in France. This is already started to happen in the UK with evangelical immigrants who are beginning to challenge the theologically liberal church in the UK. See: Biblical Christianity is rising in the UK.

Creationism and French Catholicism - 2007 events

Reuters reported in 2007:

"Bible-based criticism of evolution, once limited to Protestant fundamentalists in the United States, has become an issue in France now that Pope Benedict and some leading Catholic theologians have criticized the neo-Darwinist view of creation...

These American concerns caught notice in Europe after Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a confidant of Pope Benedict, attacked neo-Darwinist theories in 2005 in what seemed to be a move to ally the Catholic Church with "intelligent design."...

Herve Le Guyader, a University of Paris biology professor who advised the Education Ministry on the Atlas, said high school biology teachers needed more training now to respond to the increasingly open challenges to the theory of evolution.

Trouble in France and a door opening

France is a major player when it comes to Europe and is one of the largest economies in Europe.

However, at the present time, France is at a crossroads in terms of its economy and they are experiencing significant amounts of economic pressure. Nearly 10% of their population is unemployed and in December of 2011 the credit rating agency Moody's downgraded the bonds of French banks.

Also, the wealthy are starting to flee France Since capitalism depends on capital and the Eurozone is experiencing major problems things could get much rougher in France.

If you are a Bible reader and student of history, you know that men who face difficulty are often more open to God. It appears as if secularism and socialism is beginning to unravel in France and a door may soon be opening for creationism in France.


France: A potential strategy for disseminating biblical creationism

Will the Question Evolution! Campaign and the 15 questions for evolutionists spread through France? If so, how might it occur?

Please see our articles:

Overrunning Darwinism through internet evangelism, radical pricing (free) and wide distribution

A plan for accelerating the decline of global atheism

Vive le biblical creationism!

Vive le biblical creationism in France, Quebec, Africa and in all French speaking countries! Au revoir, Monsieur Darwin!

Other resources

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

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