“Being Christian Comes With A Cost” - Atheist Turned Pastor REVEALS Truth Behind Religion's Decline
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
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Patrick Bet David confronts Lee Strobel with global data on Christian decline, from Australia to Europe, as Strobel blames soft state churches, social media, Islamic growth, and rising professional costs for believers who publicly stand on biblical truth.
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| 0:00.0 | So I want to read this to you. I want to read some stats to you. I wonder how you're going to answer this. |
| 0:04.3 | Ten countries where Christianity is declining. Australia has the largest drop of any country studied. |
| 0:10.7 | It went from 67.1% in 2010 to 10 years later, 46.8%. This is a 20-point decline in only 10 years, and it's even lower today. |
| 0:25.8 | UK went from 62.4% during that same period to 49.4, losing its Christian majority, Church |
| 0:33.7 | of England closing 20 churches per year. France, Catholic share fell from 81% in 1986 to 47% |
| 0:42.2 | almost a 40% decline from 86 to 2020, |
| 0:46.2 | lost Christian majority among the eight countries projected to lose Christian majority by 2050. |
| 0:51.6 | Uruguay shifted to a majority unaffiliated, 52 nuns versus 44 Christian, used to be 61% |
| 0:58.2 | Christian in 2010. Netherlands transitioned to a religiously unaffiliated majority by 2020. |
| 1:04.0 | Roman Catholics went from 39% in 1971 to 23%. Average of eight churches closing every year. |
| 1:17.1 | U.S. 78.3 to 64% average of eight churches closing every year. U.S. 78.3 to 64%, 14% decline during the same period. Canada, 67 to 53. Chile, 86 to 68, almost 20%. Germany, 48% Christian in 2024, fewer |
| 1:25.9 | than half belong to two large churches. New Zealand, 51% |
| 1:29.6 | unaffiliated. South Korea, no clear religious majority. In 41 countries, the Christian share |
| 1:35.4 | changed by five plus percentage points from 2010 to 2020. And 40 of those 41, the change |
| 1:41.6 | was a decline. Only one was a positive. The sole exception was |
| 1:45.5 | Mozambique that's increased. That was the only one out of all of them. Why is this happening? |
| 1:50.4 | Why is the decline happening across the world? I think there's a lot of explanations for that, |
| 1:54.6 | a lot of factors that go into that. Number one, I don't trust the stats. Because back when in 1966, when I met my wife, |
| 2:04.3 | we were 14 years old, 91% of Americans would say they're Christians. Do you think we were a nation |
| 2:10.4 | that reflected that back then? I don't think so. And so how do you mean about what do you |
| 2:16.6 | mean about reflected? |
| 2:18.4 | Like, do you live? |
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