RE: What will be that main way of religion in 100 years?
February 7, 2012 at 8:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2012 at 8:18 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 7, 2012 at 7:31 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote:(February 7, 2012 at 6:22 pm)tobie Wrote: If there is a religion dominant, it will be Islam. In western (i.e christian ) nations, Atheism / Agnosticism is the fastest growing religious view, even in the USA. The more wealthy states in Europe ( UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands ) and a few others already have 20-30% Atheists / Agnostics. A study in the UK suggests that as much as 2/3 of teenagers don't believe in a God.
In Middle Eastern countries, this is not set to change. A lot of the middle east is still under Sharia Law and due to the extremist views of lots of people in power this won't change. Add to this the insurgent strikes and terrorist groups violently upholding their beliefs ( attacking schools, killing the more liberal politicians ) it leads to a whole lot of people staying set in their ways.
You're omitting very large parts of the world. Effectively most of it: in Russia the Russian Orthodox church has been and still is in a great revival since the abolition of the USSR. In China the Falung Gong is growing astronomically. In Brasil and southern Africa Pentecostalism is rising like there's no tomorrow.
If you think atheism is 'winning' I unfortunately have to advise you that the opposite is the case. Europe and north-America are exceptions, not the rule!
I get the impression that orthodox church in Russia has revived where one expects it to revive, in rural, poor, backward places, and treated cynically as novelty fad amongst the Nuevo riche, and with contempt amongst the educated and governmental elite.
I think you can bet Russia is functionally far more atheistic now, and for the foreseeable future, than she could have been without 70 years of communist rule.
Conversations with people from china suggests fulanggong grew primarily in their own propaganda aimed at the west. It has always been largely restricted to dispossessed and ill educated retirees from old communist state enterprises. It is treated so contemptuously amongst the middle class in china that calling it by the no mean epitaph of "cult" in a atheistic society is appearently not enough. It is reflexively called a crooked cult.
(February 7, 2012 at 7:31 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote:(February 7, 2012 at 6:22 pm)tobie Wrote: If there is a religion dominant, it will be Islam. In western (i.e christian ) nations, Atheism / Agnosticism is the fastest growing religious view, even in the USA. The more wealthy states in Europe ( UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands ) and a few others already have 20-30% Atheists / Agnostics. A study in the UK suggests that as much as 2/3 of teenagers don't believe in a God.
In Middle Eastern countries, this is not set to change. A lot of the middle east is still under Sharia Law and due to the extremist views of lots of people in power this won't change. Add to this the insurgent strikes and terrorist groups violently upholding their beliefs ( attacking schools, killing the more liberal politicians ) it leads to a whole lot of people staying set in their ways.
You're omitting very large parts of the world. Effectively most of it: in Russia the Russian Orthodox church has been and still is in a great revival since the abolition of the USSR. In China the Falung Gong is growing astronomically. In Brasil and southern Africa Pentecostalism is rising like there's no tomorrow.
If you think atheism is 'winning' I unfortunately have to advise you that the opposite is the case. Europe and north-America are exceptions, not the rule!
I get the impression that orthodox church in Russia has revived where one expects it to revive, in rural, poor, backward places, and treated cynically as novelty fad amongst the Nuevo riche, and with contempt amongst the educated and governmental elite.
I think you can bet Russia is functionally far more atheistic now, and for the foreseeable future, than she could have been without 70 years of communist rule.
Conversations with people from china suggests fulanggong grew primarily in their own propaganda aimed at the west. It has always been largely restricted to dispossessed and ill educated retirees from old communist state enterprises. It is appearently treated with exceptional contempt amongst the middle class and educated in china.
