Where do you get your information to the contrary?
I'm European and Christian. The author of this article makes a big confusion between religious practice and religious feelings. That's classical. And of which Europe does he talks ? Poland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece... ? Even in France, maybe the more secular country in the word, churchs are not always empty as he seems to imagine. And I'm sure that even the priests prefer to have their churchs half empty of real believers than full of sanctimonious, as it used to be...