Decline in giving is linked to decline in religious belief

I believe almost everyone who has been exposed to Christianity (and probably many others) knows that there is an underlying spiritual reality : two opposing armies, one good, one bad. Unfortunately, in our flawed human terms, 'Take up your cross daily and follow me' (at least on the path to Calvary), would not rank very highly as an attractive slogan to most of us, without the help of divine grace and its being located within a coherent and broader context and world-view. Indeed, I have only once come across a reference to 'passivity' by a Christian writer, a nun, and that, pejoratively, while, it is clearly the corner-stone, as per the slogan, and so much of Jesus' teachings, most of which seem so extreme to us that we find ways of attenuating his message. For example 'Regard the lilies of the field', 'turn the other cheek', don't ask for the return of a loan, give your coat if someone wants your jacket,' etc. Moreover, the Benedictine spiritual writer, the recently beatified, Augustine Baker, taught that growth in the interior life, in prayer and holiness, entails an increasing introversion. Without that divine grace, people will naturally look for quick returns via spiritualism, for example, some, mostly younger folk, getting sucked into into witchcraft, black magic/satanism, etc. which latter are apparently well peopled by powerful habitues of the 'dark side', even it is said, the highest degree of the Freemasons, although the lower degrees are innocents in that regard. I believe I read recenly that some evangelical charismatics had gone over to the 'dark side', and the dangers of ouija boards is fairly well-known, even fairly widely experienced. A chair levitating is normally enough, one would imagine, for people to call it a day as regards such 'games'. However, with so much misery all over the world, it's hardly surprising, I suppose, that people will try to cut corners in their efforts to see that light at the end of the tunnel - no not that high-speed Japanese train coming in the opposite direction - that NDEers speak of. As has been stated on here by different posters, there is a plethora of actual scientific proof of Christianity, of which, of course, the Resurrection is pivotal. The 'Shroud of Turin' even attests to a singularity that occurred in the form of an absence of gravity, whereby the body of Christ must have laid suspended, hovering between the two sheets, (top and bottom of the single, long shroud sheet. Axel