Steve's trying to pull a fast one with his "atheism isn't even projected to grow as a %" line.
It's technically true due to a few factors:
1. Projected increases of the human population across the board. While atheism will see gains, especially in educated, modernized countries, those gains will not match the growth of the human race. So, there will be more atheists than ever before, but the overall percentage will be lower because the pace of our gains is slower than the pace of people breeding overall. And since the vast majority of people remain in the same religion in which they were born, well, it's not really a surprise.
2. Christianity is seeing its best gains in countries that aren't educated and modernized, as well as China (which, from the outside, looks like a cultural push back against the communist regime).
3. None of this matters because the legitimacy of an idea doesn't depend on its popularity, much like the quality of McDonald's hamburgers isn't bolstered by billions being served. It's an immature, facile, fallacious argument that Steve clings to because, frankly, he's got nothing else.
It's technically true due to a few factors:
1. Projected increases of the human population across the board. While atheism will see gains, especially in educated, modernized countries, those gains will not match the growth of the human race. So, there will be more atheists than ever before, but the overall percentage will be lower because the pace of our gains is slower than the pace of people breeding overall. And since the vast majority of people remain in the same religion in which they were born, well, it's not really a surprise.
2. Christianity is seeing its best gains in countries that aren't educated and modernized, as well as China (which, from the outside, looks like a cultural push back against the communist regime).
3. None of this matters because the legitimacy of an idea doesn't depend on its popularity, much like the quality of McDonald's hamburgers isn't bolstered by billions being served. It's an immature, facile, fallacious argument that Steve clings to because, frankly, he's got nothing else.
