Why does religion continue to grow?

[Ben Davis]

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According to Pew Research, religion will continue to grow worldwide through 2050. 

• Christianity will grow numerically (+800,000,000), but stay the same as a % of the world's population: 31.4% (the largest)
  
• Muslims will grow in both categories and should garner about 29.7% of the world's population by 2050
  
• Unaffiliated (including atheists and agnostics) grows a little numerically, but goes down from 16.4% to 13.2% of the world's population.
  

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/relig...2010-2050/

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In spite of your superior intellect, logic, and scientific proof to the contrary, your message that God is dead does not seem to be getting out.

You offer a disingenuous misrepresentation of the stats. The absolute numbers must be properly represented in an environment where the population constantly changes hence the necessity for using % of each category to provide insight. Having read your other posts, I get the distinct impression that your choice to use absolute numbers was deliberate and designed to misinform.

In spite of your protestations, education is a big factor: those who are well educated are less likely to be religious. You need to compare the % of those who claim to be religious in the 'well educated' group with the % of those who claim to be religious in the general population. In every nation where a 'decent' education system exists, a lower level of religiosity is seen in well educated groups than in the general population thus demonstrating a correlation between education and religiosity. Your attempt to claim otherwise is laughable.

Overall, your attempts at misinformation are transparent and easily rebutted.

I'm interested to hear your theories of why by 2050, contrary to 300 years of predictions, almost 3,000,000,000 Christians will be sitting in pews around the world praying for the salvation of your grand kids.

Because they've been deliberately misinformed by people like you.