Why does religion continue to grow?

[CapnAwesome]

I guess it's ironically because atheism continues to grow. More and more people are becoming irreligious, so naturally there is a response to the contrary. Sorta like the reformation and counter reformation

Unaffiliated is dropping as a % of population. 

That's just simply not true at all, not in the United States anyway. Those numbers posted are seriously misguided because it's based on a projection model that starts pre-1980s. Now what happened significant in the 1980s? The fall of communism. Communism forced people who weren't Atheists to identify as such. When it fell the number of 'Atheists' dropped significantly world wide. However that's only because in communist dictatorships people were forced to cover up their real beliefs and statistics were sketchy at best.

If you started a projection model post fall of communism, you find that Atheism and Agnosticism are in fact one of the fastest growing beliefs, especially in the United States. Islam is only growing because of birthrates.

This is the problem with statistics, most people don't know what they really mean.