For all of human history, except for the last few centuries, human culture had a belief in God. Human cultures did not all believe and worship the same God as Christian worship, but none the less every human culture had a system of belief and religion. For much of Europe's history the culture had a belief and religion that centered around the Christian God. This is not to say that everyone in Europe believed and worship God and Jesus as a Christian, but they all had a sense of belief and realization that there was someone bigger and transcendent above them. But all off this has changed in the last 300 years.
What this line and author are pointing to is the fact that in the world and culture of today, belief in God is in the minority. More people today, more cultures today, have at the center an unbelief in God and worship is not even a question. And this makes very clear that our culture has gone from a Christian culture (even if there were people who practiced it, but did not believe it) to a very unChristain or secular culture. And this is an important point that every Christian needs to have in mind.
Living in a post-Christian culture means that we are not able to go with the flow anymore. It means that in truth we must swim against the culture and current and have the strength and courage to be a fish out of water. 200 years ago it was normal to go to church, talk about prayer, carry a Bible, and claim to worship God. Today all of those aspect of life as a Christian are not only abnormal to the culture, but in many place they are even looked down upon and ridiculed. Today more than ever being a Christian is not normal. Like the author stated, today is a period of the impossibility of belief. So being a God delighter and Jesus lover means; going against the culture, being looked down upon, being in the minority, and making disciples in a culture that works against us. And this is what it truly means to be a follower of Christ and disciple maker in the world today.
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