Proportion of Catholics in Poland falls to 71%, new census data show
... The new data, released by Statistics Poland (GUS), a state agency, show that in the 2021 census, 27.1 million people (71.3%) identified themselves as followers of the Roman Catholic church. That was down from 33.7 million (87.6%) at the last census a decade earlier. Meanwhile, the proportion saying that they belonged to no faith almost tripled, from 2.4% in 2011 to 6.9% in 2021. Likewise, those who refused to answer the question also almost tripled, from 7.1% to 20.5%. ... Among young Poles, the decline was even more dramatic: from 69% practising regularly in 1992 to 23% in 2021. ...
All other faiths, including Orthodox, are under 1% so it's not like the ex-Catholics are looking for a stronger walk with the Lord in other denominations. They've just given up, entirely.
Yet, in the 1980s, Polish Catholicism appeared strong. With Lech Wałęsa, Solidarność, and John Paul II leading the charge, it was a strong force against communism. The faith of people was sincere, at least it seemed so as someone looking in from a distance.
But I wonder if perhaps the Faith was more of a political movement with a vaneer of religion, rather than a sincere religion working out the implications of Faith in the public square.
Or maybe the 1980s are too long ago, and the younger generations don't remember and just aren't plugged in?
Any Polish Anons have two cents to chip into the convo?
The bigger implications for the Great Awakening are that the spiritual side of THIS movement ought to be deep and sincere, and not just a vaneer for POLITICAL opposition. Lest we go the way of Poland (and Italy, and Quebec) and lose our faith when we win (note: when, not if), we have to make sure that spirituality and the walk with God come FIRST. Political opposition to the WEF etc. has to flow out of FAITH.
First of all, all polls are full of crap. Second of all, it's the cahtolic church. Even among religious organizations, they're the single most corrupt on the planet.
Ergo, is it any wonder that younger people are less regular in their practice when they have no alternatives? Europe isn't really like the USA. Here, we have hundreds of smaller denominations. Don't like the direction of your current church? Go any direction and find a dozen alternativs.
Europe isn't like that. It's Catholic or Orthodox. That's pretty much it. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say they're using similar methodology to here in the USA.
So basically, that means 85%-ish of all the "nones and non practicing" just means people who are still religious, but don't aren't part of a mainstream church and tend to turn to online worship, rather than in person worship. This isn't a new phenomenon. In fact, it's a few decades old. People have grown tired with the corruption of in person churches. And I'm not just talking about the rapists and queer crap that always seems to infiltrate organized religions. I'm talking about "church politics". You know, how people will form their own cliques inside of the church and basically treat it like high school for adults?
One of the reasons I stopped going to my church besides pushing the jab, it just got to the point to the point where if you weren't a doctor, lawyer, etc. (people of money) and gave a large tithe/donation weekly, no one would talk to you. I actually had times where I needed to talk to my pastor about something that was bothering me, and got blown off for someone else because they gave a bigger tithe than I did.
Things like this turn people off from physical churches, which is why physical church attendance is down across the board. On the flip side, online church attendance has been growing exponentially since the early 2000s and is at an all time high. It's also incredibly popular with what demographic? Young people. The online church attendance among younger generations is actually really astounding, at least in the US, it's something like 80-85% at least watch a devotional video once a week a minimum.
There's a reason people like John Hagee pull in over a billion views a year. A good portion of his viewership is from Europe. But my point is this. Christianity isn't dying. That's a lie concocted from manipulated statistics and data by doing things like introducing the "none" and "non practicing" categories with arbitrary methodology. For example, "nones" are roughly 80-85% Christian depending on the country. They just don't identify themselves with a mainstream church for various reasons and prefer attending online services rather than in person services. "Non practicing" have similar criteria. Religious polls, studies, and statistics are just as corrupt, invalid, error ridden, and just plain wrong as their political counterparts. They use the exact same methodology as well. It's all by design in order to make us think that Christianity is shrinking, that we're a minority or a soon to be minority, etc. etc.
So yeah, I don't believe this is true in the first place. Ther's far too many factors and too much evidence that suggests that the opposite is true. All it takes is a little looking into the nitty gritty of the fake polls, statistics, studies, etc.
It makes sense if you think about it. EVERYTHING is online today. Especially for younger generations. All it takes is one or two devotional pages to show up in someone's instagram feed, or a rogue youtube video showing up in the reccomended section and boom. Curiosity leads someone becoming a Christians through online worship.