For the first time in its history, Spain now has more atheists, agnostics, and non-believers than it does practicing Catholics, according to a new report by the Research Center of Spanish Sociology (CIS).
While a third of Spaniards reported being Catholic, only 22.7 percent of them said that they attend mass and go to confession regularly. In Catalonia, just 10.9 percent of believers reported regularly attending mass and going to confession, while in Rojia, south of Basque country, about 40 percent of people are still practicing Catholics, FranceInfo reports.
The secularization of Spanish society has been substantially more pronounced in industrialized areas where cultures mix more often like Madrid, Catalonia, and the Basque Country.
In response to these figures, the Spanish newspaper El Diario wrote: “These figures, 80 years later, finally give reason to Manuel Azana: Spain has ceased to be Catholic.”
The statement refers to a sentence pronounced by the president of the Spanish Provisional Government in October 1931.
Up until now, Spain has lagged far behind other Western European countries where the majority of Catholics are non-practicing.
While Western European is becoming increasingly secularized, Central and Eastern Europe remain Christian strongholds. Croatia, Poland, and Hungary are all examples of this.
Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary has repeatedly defended the the idea of holding onto to a Christian Europe.
In a speech given earlier this year to the Hungarian people he said, “If we lose our Christian culture, we are going to lose our freedom.”
“Without the protection of our Christian culture we will lose Europe, and Europe will no longer belong to the Europeans,” he declared.
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Spain is a far-left, atheist country now, and will bring in in more Muslims.