Why do Christians become Christians?

[Mister Agenda]

Sorry, it's so readily available that it didn't occur to me that you wouldn't easily find it yourself. Here you go:

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/

And in 15 years, if those China trends continue, Christians will be almost 20% of the Chinese population.

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/relig...2010-2050/

If you scroll down, you will see a chart that shows the change between 2015 and 2050. Christians in the US drop from 78.3% to 66.4%. Unaffiliated from 16.4% to 25.6%. Wolrdwide, Christians stay the same at 31.4% and unaffiliated drop from 16.4% to 13.2%.

And what are these unaffiliated? From your link: However, a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted jointly with the PBS television program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, finds that many of the country’s 46 million unaffiliated adults are religious or spiritual in some way. Two-thirds of them say they believe in God (68%). More than half say they often feel a deep connection with nature and the earth (58%), while more than a third classify themselves as “spiritual” but not “religious” (37%), and one-in-five (21%) say they pray every day.

What point are you trying to make?

That if you examined your numbers as carefully as you examined mine, you'd have noticed that the prediction for China doesn't take any confounding factors into account, it just blithely assumes the rate of increase will remain the same. The way that I did when I asserted 'Nones' would be 40% of the population in 30 years. That was just extrapolating the same rate of increase would hold for 30 years. Fortunately, PEW isn't as naïve in their estimations as Professor Yang.

And I certainly WAS NOT trying to claim that 'Nones' are atheists, so I've no idea why you were on about their makeup.