Why does religion continue to grow?

[dyresand]

So, what I am hearing is that the God Delusion thrives where there is lower education levels. It would follow that at least after awhile, highly educated countries should see precipitous drops in religion--despite birth rates. While that has been the prediction for hundreds of years, that's not the case. There are more Christians and Muslims every year--even in developed countries.. Perhaps your arguments are not as convincing as you think they are.

Yes that's pretty much it. A smart educated person with a degree from MIT with biological engineering wouldn't even have a religion or believe in a god.
More children these days won't believe in a god either they know the difference between fact and fiction. Education is a hell of a wonderful thing. Education
over all challenges the bible and god. That being said education is killing religion because of how absurd it is. A magic baby born of a virgin sent down to die for
our sins and then come back during the rapture to start the final battle between good and evil. This sounds like more of a made up story than something to be real.
Though it would make a kick ass movie....

Wait the left behind series of movies but they were decent nothing really interesting though.