Is religion almost finished?

[Napoléon]

Islam has been in the doldrums for a couple of hundred years. Every country that has tried to base it's laws and politics on Islam is a failure.

I must be living in a different time period. Yes, Islamic countries are for the most part barbaric, but they are not all failures. UAE, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia they are all doing reasonably well for themselves.

And Islam itself hasn't really been in the doldrums, or at least that isn't the impression I got. I thought it was still the fastest growing religion in the world?

Islam is found to be the fastest growing religion in the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_religion


Also interesting:

In terms of absolute numbers, irreligion appears to be increasing (along with secularization generally).[94] Even so, it is decreasing as a percentage of the world population, due primarily to population increases in more religious developing countries outpacing population growth (or decline) in less religious developed countries. (See the geographic distribution of atheism.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_r...nreligious