Some might; we're already seeing that in some of today's youth -- the key word being some. But outside of those atheists and agnostics that have gone, frankly put, batshit insane and utterly degenerate, most people are pretty firm in their (lack of) beliefs in some higher power.I don't think your right in the long term.
Quite simply put, this age of ours is an incredibly lonely one, an incredibly soulless one and its leaving a void it might not get filled with Christianity but religion will come back.
You consider a lack of religion and belief in what I would call a Sky Fairy a "soulless existence"... except most people are perfectly fine with this over believing in what's basically a fairy tale, and they don't consider it as such.
Unless it's an outside force that influences it (such as an actual Higher Power appearing in some way conclusively) or Europe becoming Islamized because of the migrant hordes, religion is never going to have as much influence as it did up to last century.
I'd bet a hundred quid on it without hesitation.
Forever is a long time, yes, but unless something drastically changes, as I mentioned above, it's never going to rebound to the point where it was as influential as it was in the pre-19th and pre-WW I days.To say that atheism's primacy in Europe will be permanent based on current trends betrays a very limited view of history. Even if Christianity does fade in Europe, which is far from decided, to say that it would never rebound is unrealistic.
Forever is a long time. You say that the World Wars caused the decline of faith in Europe. Who is to say that events of similar scale could not reverse this in the future? In time current historical events and cultural trends will fade and new ones will take their place. Be in in decades, centuries, or millennia.
Besides, if Christianity is replaced in Europe is will not be by atheism, but Islam.
The only way an event could have such an impact as the Wars did to revive religion is if something like the Biblical Armageddon occured, or if an Angel decided to get off his parrot perch and come on down to say hello.
But, sadly enough, I agree with you on the Islam point -- unless we curb these fucking barbarians from invading Europe, Europe will slowly becoming more and more Islamic. It may take a century or more, but it'll happen.
If people want to call me "Islamophobic" or "xenophobic" for pointing out how much of a shit show Europe and the UK are becoming right now because of these fucking invading hordes, then I embrace those titles gladly compared to burying my head in the sand like an ostrich or naively believing that importing the Third World will better Europe's cultures, populations, and lifestyles in some way.