@judgedread I come from a large extended family which is Catholic on both sides, and while my only contact with the church anymore is limited to attending funeral masses for relatives, I can’t help but notice the glaringly low attendance at formal mass services. And in addition to that, the only people attending these services are aging grey hairs and there are no young people with children. Similarly, Catholic schools, which I attended from grades K though 9 are all but dead in the current year.
There’s no revival happening anywhere in real life. And it’s not a case of Christianity being repressed or sabotaged or muscled out by some other religion. Christianity is just dying because people objectively, dispassionately, have outgrown it. The same way human beings eventually outgrew every other superstition we had since emerging from caves