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Could it be that atheism is on the decline and faith in the gospel is actually rising?

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You know, if you go over to the UK, other parts of Europe,

you'll find that church buildings are closing in some cases by the hundreds

every year. The church attendance is dropping that more and more people identify as atheists,

that Christianity in Europe seems to be on the decline, on the wane. You can look at stats in America where the number of professing

Christians went from 85% down to 75% in just one decade, where the rise of the religious nuns,

N-O-NES, continues at a rapid pace, where those saying they have no religious affiliation, that number

gets higher and higher. And there's certainly the influence and impact of the so-called

new atheist, Richard Dawkins, Christian, Christopher Hitchin, Sam Harris, and others, and the degree to which their arguments, their attacks on belief in God and Christian faith on the Bible and other religious faith, that those things have had their effect in the society and on and on and on.

And yet, without question, around the world, the number of those professing faith in Jesus

continues to grow dramatically. Around the world, it is anything but a post-Christian age.

In fact, faith in God is rising at a rapid pace around the world. And Justin Briarly has written a book. I'll tell you

about Justin in a moment. It's called the surprising rebirth of belief in God. Why new atheism

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