RE: Churches losing membership four times faster than they are gaining it
March 27, 2015 at 12:40 pm
(March 27, 2015 at 3:55 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, I remember hearing the opinion that we will see more and more polarisation. Theists will drift towards very liberal interpretations or else double down on the absolute crazy reality denial. That seems quite plausible to me, and the crazy ones will die out being replaced with far fewer new crazies. Hopefully.
The thing is, crazy religious fanatics often have lots of children. And they are more likely to home school their children, which keeps "bad ideas" away from them to a great extent, at least during their formative years.
More educated, and more intelligent people tend to have fewer children.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
