"I have said that Asia and the ancient world had an air of being too old to die. Christendom has had the very opposite fate. Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a god who knew the way out of the grave. But the first extraordinary fact which marks this history is this: that Europe has been turned upside down over and over again; and that at the end of each of these revolutions the same religion has again been found on top. The Faith is always converting the age, not as an old religion but as a new religion. "
- G.K Chesterton (The Five Deaths of the Faith)
There is much truth to this, but one new factor now is the presence of an opposed faith in the European heartland. Also, it's possible that the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution represent something new under the sun, which might constitute an endpoint.
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