(April 12, 2015 at 4:28 pm)dyresand Wrote:(April 12, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Aroura Wrote: Yeah, there are a lot of difficulties in getting accurate numbers for something like this.
For instance, I stopped going to church in my late teens. Like ever. I didn't even get married in a church, either time I did it! But I still self identified as a Christian and specifically as a Catholic until I was about 30. Between 30 and 33, I don't know what I would have answered as my beliefs were changing, probably spiritual or believe in some sort of higher power. I finally admitted my atheism to myself when I was 33.
So how many people claim they are Christian but don't actually practice, and are on the "spiritual" end of their belief spectrum, headed for "none"?
So this kind of research isn't terribly accurate in a lot of ways, I think. People lie to researchers, and to themselves as well.
Also on the news they said islam is growing its really not i had to check unbiased news sites religion is just plain dying.
I am not so sure. They are simply basing it on the number of people who are emigrating from Islamic countries to the western world. Then they get 2+2 = 4. However, with the church numbers dwindling, especially in the United Kingdom, it could become a reality where Islam is the number one religion. Only Japan is stopping muslims from living there which can be construed as racist against Arabs.
