(July 23, 2014 at 9:07 am)alpha male Wrote: Population growth includes immigration, which is largely Muslim.
Atheists frequently note that people tend to adopt the belief systems of their parents. If that is true, and if atheists have fewer children than theists (I've tried unsuccessfully in the past to find direct statistics on this), then it's a losing battle. Theism will prevail. Europe won't go from Christian to atheist. It will go from Christian to Muslim via atheism.
I remember reading a few years ago that in the western world, the religious indocrination of small children in a religious family has about a 50% success rate i.e. if a christian couple have 2 children the brain washing will "take" with one but not the other (on average).
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
