(June 22, 2014 at 3:33 pm)professor Wrote: Besides that, just look at China, the religion of Mao (with his face plastered all over that nation) is gone and it is projected there will be more Christians there than in the US in a couple of decades.That's quite possible, due to the sheer numbers and the likelihood that religion will take hold for a while as a novelty or a way to rebel against the old culture. That, combined with shrinking numbers of Christians in the USA, could eventually lead to China having more Christians in the USA.
Then you'd all need to figure out how many of those are True Christians™.
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