RE: End of Times and career
October 5, 2016 at 10:07 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2016 at 10:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
WTF are you talking about.... the article you -just- linked begins as follows:
it continues
Quote:While Christianity may be on the decline in the United StatesSo, it seems, they knew as well as Min did, and now, as well as you should.
it continues
Quote:the world is becoming more religious, not less. While rising numbers of “nones” — those who claim no religious affiliation when asked — claim the attention of religious pundits, the world tells a different story. Religious convictions are growing and shifting geographically in several dramatic ways.So where, specifically? It continues:
Quote:In 1980, more Christians were found in the global South than the North for the first time in 1,000 years. Today, the Christian community in Latin America and Africa, alone, account for 1 billion people.You don't think that Min cares whether or not jesusism deports itself to the third world and China, do you? I think he'd invite you to do so more quickly. I think christianity is a better match for the third world, and would be happier there, myself.
Over the past 100 years, Christians grew from less than 10 percent of Africa’s population to its nearly 500 million today. One out of four Christians in the world presently is an Africa, and the Pew Research Center estimates that will grow to 40 percent by 2030.
Asia is also experiencing growth as world Christianity’s center has moved not only South, but also East. In the last century, Christianity grew at twice the rate of population in that continent. Asia’s Christian population of 350 million is projected to grow to 460 million by 2025.
The global religious wildcard is China. Even today, demographers estimate that more Christian believers are found worshipping in China on any given Sunday than in the United States. Future trends, while difficult to predict because so much is below the religious radar, could dramatically drive down the world’s religious “nones.”
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