Talk:Decline of Christianity in the Western world

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Merge with Postchristianity?

In the course of making edits here, I stumbled upon Postchristianity which is the exact same thing.

I propose, to eliminate this article as duplicative:

We migrate any information present here that is not in Postchristianity to that page
Add a redirect to Postchristianity from "Decline of Christianity"
Delete this page

I will begin work on step #1 immediately, since it is effectively only the improvement of Postchristianity. If there are any objections, please voice them here.

Kim Jong Undo 02:34, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Just kidding. I'm not sure which article is more legit. They do appear duplicative. But I don't really have the time for this project.

--Kim Jong Undo 03:43, 12 June 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kim Jong Undo (talk • contribs)

Changed title of the article

On the whole, Christianity is growing in numbers and as a percentage of the world's population as is religion (see: Growth of religion).[1]

Accordingly, I changed the title of the article.Knox490 (talk) 15:14, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Previously the article's title was "Decline of Christianity". Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I moved it to Decline of Christianity in the Western World because that is what the lede said and it is growing in other countries. GlennHakim (talk) 11:55, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Templates

There are two templates on the article which refer to this talk page for discussion. Would any editors care to expand on ideas to improve the issues with the article? GlennHakim (talk) 11:56, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Causes missing?

I wonder whether the article has adequately explained the possible causes of suhc decline. If so, I may have missed such info. However, I don't see a separate section about such causes. The whole article is all about statistics... in prose. George Ho (talk) 15:41, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]