Magic
My feeling is that it's a combination of things:
- Like you say, people are too engrossed in their i-phones and their image on social media. A couple of weeks ago, I went into town to replace my mobile phone. In the phone shop was a girl in front of me who was VERY, VERY distraught because her phone was on the blink and she hadn't been able to access facebook since the day before. I kid you not. It was as though her whole world had fallen apart. God isn't on facebook and therefore isn't on their radar.
- god is becoming less and less relevant to people (belief in god is falling fast in Europe and beginning to fall in the USA) - church congregations are through the floor (generally) in the UK.
- In the UK, although paedophilia appears to be rife in the katlicker church, it's now become associated with clergy of all denominations.
- In the UK, if a jovie comes a door knocking, either the door gets left unanswered or slammed in their faces once it becomes apparent who they are. Jovies very rarely get over the threshold.