Not long ago, the magazine Veja astonished everybody bout the decay of thought and religious practices in Europe. “Europeans are now the least religious population in the world”, told the magazine Reverend Timothy Bradshaw, Theology professor at Oxford.

The numbers in the story are, indeed, surprising, because they show empty churches, either in Catholic or Protestant ones, as it happens to the Canterbury Cathedral, which has been empty on Sunday mornings, the busiest day in any Christian temple.

It concerns the religious authorities, as they don’t find, even trying hard, a single explanation for the lack of interest of Europeans for traditional religions.

Among experts some say that part of this lack of interest lies in the rationalist tradition of the continent. Others go on saying that the exaggerated consumerism and the stability of the countries are the determining factors.

The high quality of life and less susceptibility to questions that worry other continents, such as violence, misery or racial tensions, are among the reasons for the Europeans to leave services, and these habits have been incorporated by their children.

Chances are that the reasons for the falling of traditional religions in Europe are in fact all these factors included, but the heart of the matter lies, without a shadow of a doubt, in the lack of interaction between the dogmatic religions and the new times, those who can’t buy into the blind faith theory, as Kardec had warned in the 19^th century proposing a new kind of faith capable of facing reason face to face, fearing neither science nor technological advancements, because it’s strong enough.

About this subject, the Compiler of Spiritism said: “The resistance of the unbeliever, we must agree, is almost always due less to himself than to the manner in which things have been put to him. Faith needs a base, one that gives complete understanding of what we are asked to accept. In order to believe it is not enough to see; above all else it is necessary to understand. Blind faith is no longer of this century, so much so, that it is exactly blind dogmatic faith which produces the greatest number of unbelievers today, because it tries to impose itself, demanding the abdication of the most precious prerogatives of mankind, which are rationalization and free-will.” (The Gospel According to Spiritism, chap. 19).

It was then, following such words, that Kardec wove the sentence which describes so well what we, Spiritist, think about it: “Unshakable faith is that which can stand face to face with reason in all epochs of humanity.”