Islam set to become world's largest religion by 2075, study suggests

[Jimmy Higgins]

A thread started on an Atheist web board about the fear of Christians becoming more atheistic in Europe.

 

[Elixir]

Thank you very much. If I live till 2075 I'll be 100 years old. Maybe I'll live to see a mosque on every corner.

Caddy-corner to the taco truck, and opposite the falafel stand. It'll be great!

 

[TSwizzle]

By the way, I didn't even get a chance to get to emphasize how Muslims are human beings, something I should have stated perhaps earlier in the thread, because they are treated in some threads as some subhuman species whom we should fear and hate and keep obsessing over - just because - or really because they are somehow perceived as somehow inalienably different and therefore something that some cannot handle thinking of as real breathing human beings who have mundane lives, dreams, and hopes just like the rest of us in the First World.

We infidels are also human beings. As are Christians and Jews who are on the receiving end of the ruthless oppression mete out by the followers of islam.

Such chutzpah.

An explosion at St George's Coptic church in Tanta killed 29 people. Hours later, a blast outside St Mark's Coptic church in Alexandria left 16 dead.

BBC

As you say, peace.

 

[BH]

I read in a book once that the police chief of Paris, fearing the rise of the socialists and communists, supplied bomb to anarchists through his police infilitrators. When the anarchists blew the bombs up the police chief balmed the socialists and communists even though he knew it was the anarachists just to try to decrease their popularity. According to such reasoning we should outlaw police chiefs since they give terrorists bombs.

 

[Trausti]

A thread started on an Atheist web board about the fear of Christians becoming more atheistic in Europe.

How did you get that from a thread titled "Islam set to become world's largest religion"?

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We infidels are also human beings. As are Christians and Jews who are on the receiving end of the ruthless oppression mete out by the followers of islam.

Such chutzpah.

An explosion at St George's Coptic church in Tanta killed 29 people. Hours later, a blast outside St Mark's Coptic church in Alexandria left 16 dead.

BBC

As you say, peace.

 

[NightSky]

We infidels are also human beings. As are Christians and Jews who are on the receiving end of the ruthless oppression mete out by the followers of islam.

Such chutzpah.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" as the idiom comes to mind.

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As you say, peace.

When I say it, I mean it. Do you?

Peace.

 

[NightSky]

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Peace.

 

[Ger1956]

Hardly surprising;



Teh Gruaniad

Aging Europe is creaking toward it's own death.

and?
we'll all be dead by then, who cares?

one violent aggressively recruiting religion that preached intolerance and and death to non-believers scoured the world for hundreds or years and became the culturally dominant cult on the planet.
now a different one looks to be overtaking it.
how is this anything except the completely expected result of the normalization of delusional thinking?

Well not really,that means we leave children and grand children to be subjugated under them. On the other hand maybe parents today really don't care. You may have a point here !

 

[LordKiran]

and?
we'll all be dead by then, who cares?

one violent aggressively recruiting religion that preached intolerance and and death to non-believers scoured the world for hundreds or years and became the culturally dominant cult on the planet.
now a different one looks to be overtaking it.
how is this anything except the completely expected result of the normalization of delusional thinking?

Well not really,that means we leave children and grand children to be subjugated under them. On the other hand maybe parents today really don't care. You may have a point here !

You have absolutely no reason to think that is the case but okay!

 

[TSwizzle]

A sorry state of affairs in Tunisia, birth place of the Arab Spring.

A British DJ has been sentenced to a year in jail by a Tunisian court after he played a remix recording of the Muslim call to prayer in a nightclub. The London-born Dax J, who left Tunisia after last weekend’s incident, was charged with public indecency and offending public morality, said Ylyes Miladi, a spokesman of a court in the town of Grombalia. Tunisian authorities shut down the nightclub in the north-east town of Nabeul and began an investigation after a video, widely shared on social media, showed clubbers dancing to music that included the call to prayer, sparking a storm of debate. “We will not allow attacks against religious feelings and the sacred,” the governor of Nabeul, Mnaouar Ouertani, said when the club was shut down.

Teh Gruaniad

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I read in a book once that the police chief of Paris, fearing the rise of the socialists and communists, supplied bomb to anarchists through his police infilitrators. When the anarchists blew the bombs up the police chief balmed the socialists and communists even though he knew it was the anarachists just to try to decrease their popularity. According to such reasoning we should outlaw police chiefs since they give terrorists bombs.

Black Panthers had the same issues with the FBI and we still have a few here bitching about how violent the Black Panthers were, when so many of them were FBI informers and FBI saboteurs.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

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[B]I also have an image to share, the [B][SIZE=3][COLOR="#B22222"]key[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] part of the picture and explanation that enables liberals to see why there isn't a connection:[/B]
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Peace.

Why is the professional shooter holding a hair drier? Is this the fashion police?

 

[Elixir]

Why is the professional shooter holding a hair drier? Is this the fashion police?

It is much more important to LOOK professional than to actually BE professional.

 

[fromderinside]

Hardly surprising;

The number of babies born to Muslims is expected to overtake those born to Christians within two decades, making Islam the world’s largest religion by 2075, according to new analysis of data by the Pew Research Center. People with no religious affiliation are set to shrink as a proportion of the world’s population as a result of their declining birthrate and growing numbers of Muslims and Christians. The analysis points to modest but significant demographic shifts in religious affiliation over the coming decades, as populations in the global south continue to grow rapidly and Christian populations in Europe age and die.

Teh Gruaniad

Aging Europe is creaking toward it's own death.


Ooops, meant for General Religion forum.

Woo ...?

 

[NightSky]

Why is the professional shooter holding a hair drier? Is this the fashion police?

Lol - I just noticed that in the picture. Good catch. Maybe part-time fashion police and full-time professional shooter?

Peace.

 

[Warpoet]

That's called a lanyard. Some people attach them to pistols so they're not dropped or taken off them.

 

[bilby]

Europe as a whole remains stable in terms of population.

The make up of the population is shifting. The Europe you see today, is dying out.

...and that was equally true at every time in the history of the world.

Europe has always changed, and always will. The only continent that hasn't changed much is Antarctica.

If you brought a person from 1850 London to 1950 London, he would be horrified and dismayed at how little of the social order he took for granted had survived. And that fact remains true for any two dates separated by a century, in any location in Europe since at least the Iron Age.

Not only is change inevitable, but it is usually surprising - those changes that get predicted usually turn out not to happen; while the stuff we expect to remain unchanged is blown apart and replaced by something totally novel.

Even if Islam did dominate Europe in a hundred year's time, I am happy to bet that it will barely be recognizable to today's Muslims.

Your fear is unfounded and very, very silly. You should stop being so terrified, and learn to enjoy change - because you can't stop change (nor, I hope, learn to enjoy terror).