Failure of Christianity

Why has Christianity failed?

For 2000 years, since Jesus Christ walked this earth and went, his followers have spread Christianity from its humble beginnings to what it is today the world's largest religion. But it was been done peacefully at first though the disciples of Christ through the sermon of the mount to the conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus, where Christianity really flourished. 

But the question is why has Christianity declined? For several reasons, one the Catholic Church and the theocracy of the Pope that the western world had for nearly 500 years up until the Protestant Reformation of 1517 by Martin Luther, two the inquisitions, mass murders of anyone that owned a bible and the crusades where Christian Soldiers invaded and pillaged lands and raped and massacred entire populations of Jews, Muslims, Pagans and Orthodox Christians through out the Byzantine Empire.  

America when it was founded by European colonists, originally were fleeing from the unholy union between church and autocracy of the King and wanted to have a wall between the church and state so people would be free to follow what religion they wanted or to have freedom from religion if they choose so. It's written in the Constitution on the declaration of independence stating:

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law an establishment of religion.

But overtime as America became independent and became a powerful country, the Christian extremists from within have tried for many years to impose its own interpretation of Christianity and Biblical law and they have pushed many people away from the faith and as people have become more educated and secularized people have decided to either renounce Christianity completely or embrace other beliefs and practices that they feel are more compatible with the modern world and to discard Christianity as outdated and uncompromising. 

During the middle half of the 20th century after the end of World War II European and Western Civilization has become post-christian, Christianity has no influence in public life, references to God and Jesus are removed from schools and secular institutions and Christianity is seen as a religion of superstition and backwardness and people don't want to be associated with Christianity in general. 

The Roman Catholic Church continues to loses millions of people yearly and many churches are being shut down due to the lack of congregants, the Orthodox Church has also lost millions of people due being a national church and church more based on ethnicity and nationality than faith, Mainline Protestant Churches have shrunk due to the lack of spirituality and closeness to God and the Evangelicals and Pentecostals and born again Christian cults due to their fundamentalist and extremist views on the bible and wanted to impose on others though proselytizing and street and television evangelism which has turned off many people, because of their racist, xenophobic, judgmental and intolerance towards progressive and secular views and values. 

Until Christianity especially in America finally comes to terms with its past and face the consequences and properly atone for its past sins and make amends with the world, Christianity will continue to dwindle in a exhilarating rate and people will continue to abhor it as a disease and a ideology that is comparable to Fascism.