The ironic end of chrisitianity

[Mister Agenda]

If current trends continue (I know), religion will have nearly died out in Europe by around the end of the century, but it will take about another century for the USA to catch up. Meanwhile Africa and South America and the Middle East will remain highly religious, but will allow religious diversity and atheism, so maybe another century beyond that before the whole world is mostly irreligious. The year 2300 seems a long way off to me.

Of course, it's possible the trends leading to less religion could accelerate.

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I think the most we can hope for is for a huge growth of atheism to the point that it becomes on par with the Abrahamic religions. Not as a religion itself, but as a group with similar numbers. In my opinion, it's inevitable. In the States, our politicians are already begrudgingly agreeing to things that they never would have if it weren't for the Civil Rights movement. Bigots are forced to be sensitive when cameras are rolling and thats at least a step.

What we need is huge growth in freethinking humanism. Atheism without a concommittent rational worldview is vulnerable to all kinds of woo.

The easiest kind of atheist to convert is one who was never religious and never thought about it much.

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Yes that makes sense, humans seem to need to believe in something beyond themselves, be it football and the gods that play it, and yes I think in time even atheism will become a strong belief system, it could even become a dogma, and hence fundamentalism will sneak in.

Neither atheism nor theism can be dogmas in themselves, and freethought doesn't allow dogma.