(June 9, 2015 at 10:34 pm)dyresand Wrote: Also here is some hard facts for you theists 1. Organized religion is dying 2. No one from the 90's generation and after will more than likely not be apart of the church or organization 3. Atheism is grown whether you like it or not. 4. more people accept the scientific model over a book of fairy tails and metaphors. 5. Church and religion is just a waste of time if you believe in god fine you don't need church or the bible reinforce said belief. Because sooner or later maybe not loose that belief anyways.
1. Not true. Worldwide annual growth rates: Christianity 1.31% Islam 1.86% Hinduism 1.41% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_r...statistics)
2. Because?
3. Atheism grows 0.05% (from 0% to 2% of the population in 100 years)
4. compare 1 and 3
5. See 1
So you get a grip on reality, here is an excerpt from the same article (bold added):
Christianity
Further information: Christian population growth
According to a 2005 paper submitted to a meeting of the American Political Science Association, most of Christianity's growth has occurred in non-Western countries. The paper concludes that the Pentecostalism movement is the fastest-growing religion worldwide.[46]
The US Department of State estimates that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the last decade.[47] In Nigeria, the percentage of Christians has grown from 21.4% in 1953 to 50.8% in 2010.[48] In South Korea, Christianity has grown from 20.7% in 1985 to 29.3% in 2010.[48]
Evangelical Christian denominations are among the fastest-growing denominations in some Catholic Christian countries, such as Brazil and France.[49][50] In Brazil, the total number of Protestants jumped from 16.2% in 2000[51] to 22.2% in 2010 (for the first time, the percentage of Catholics in Brazil is less than 70%). These cases don't contribute to a growth of Christianity overall, but rather to a substitution of a brand of Christianity with another one.
The records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints show that its membership has grown every decade since its beginning in the 1830s,[52] that it is among the top ten largest Christian denominations today,[53] and that it is the fastest growing church in America.[54]