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

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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.
 
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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.
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?
 

Look, it is very very important that we defend against ignorance and bigotry by spreading fear.

Aren't you terrified at the prospect of Europe becoming less Christian and less white? Where will the Master Race live?

:rolleyes:
 
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.

:hysterical: Are you for real? Europe as a whole remains stable in terms of population. There are few exceptions and most of them are impoverished former eastern bloc countries
 
Hardly surprising;



Teh Gruaniad

Aging Europe is creaking toward it's own death.


Ooops, meant for General Religion forum.

:hysterical: Are you for real? Europe as a whole remains stable in terms of population. There are few exceptions and most of them are impoverished former eastern bloc countries

People bemoaning the death of Europe, the browning of America etc., are quite unaware of the the fact that every day they wake up to a world that is a different place. That's how it has always been, and ever will be. Don't like it? Tough shit.
 
Obviously, as an atheist forum where things like gay rights, woman's equality and western liberal values are held in high esteem, we couldn't be more delighted when Islam grows and thrives.
 
Obviously, as an atheist forum where things like gay rights, woman's equality and western liberal values are held in high esteem, we couldn't be more delighted when Islam grows and thrives.

Yes, but leftism and hatred of Western Culture are the stronger impulse for many on here. People like Ford are just giddy at the prospect of Europe getting islamicized.
 
It is amazing.

Before the US launched a massive terrorist attack of Iraq and began killing and torturing Muslims in large numbers very few Americans cared about Muslims at all.

Sure people were mad about 911 but they blamed al Qaeda, not all Muslims.

But when the US attacked and tortured Muslims for over a decade suddenly all these people with all these insane fears of Muslims starting popping up.

Like retarded mushrooms.

It is hard to explain the phenomena.

The same thing happened when the US was exterminating the natives. There was all this fear and all these insane stories of the "savages".
 
I believe that a realistic assessment of this would include an analysis of how the missionary aspect of the religion is financed. I think today the best way to stop the spread of Islam (and indeed, I believe that Islam is of little use to modern men and women) is to reduce our dependence on Saudi oil. In today's world all things of an artificial nature (and all religions are false fairy stories) require a flow of wealth and resources to perpetuate themselves. Today, the main source of this religion sustaining wealth is probably Saudi Arabia and possibly also Iran. It costs money to build mosques and madrasas. Outreach and recruitment costs a continuing investment. There is nothing inherent in Islam that sustains itself in our modern world. It is a wholly externally funded enterprise. We just have to stop feeding the beast by buying their fucking oil, which is really at the base of any Islamic expansion. The reason Islam is so backward is that it has failed to find a way to justify itself in a market economy on its own. So while their numbers might temporarily expand, they actually mean very little because Islam has not been dealing with 20th and 21st century problems. In the civilized world, religions in general are shrinking and shrink they should
 
Since it is exactly this type of articles that turn otherwise rational people into accepting irrational premises and irrational leaders on the global stage, I am inclined to give a more realistic perspective just to bring logic and sanity and a reality check back to this thread:

First and foremost, we would have to believe that the birth trends will stay the same, which we as people without crystal balls can never factually know, because trends are based on what's happened in the past and not some accurate way of gauging what's is in the definitive future.

Secondly, even if trends stay the same, the fact is that even if Muslims become somehow in 2075 the largest religion, it does not equate to having any type of de facto power. Having more people does not equate to more power because it is precisely quality of leadership in countries and not ever quantity of people that determines and will continue to determine the course of history in terms of obtainment of power and the maintaining of power on the global stage. For example, China has had the world largest population for quite a number of years, yet we're not all here on this forum speaking Chinese. India has the second largest population and yet we're not here on this forum speaking Hindi either. One example of cultural hegemony that presumably should have occurred if the fearmongers were to have back then been perhaps believed about how the "others" have so-and-so numbers of population and so are going to dominate us on the world stage.

Thirdly, we've had the similar kinds of concerns and hysteria about things like Soviet Union and somehow communism spreading worldwide and dominating us in Western Europe and United States. That didn't happen. Instead, Berlin wall came down, the USSR fell, and China as a communist country was weakened so that part and parcel of the plan for China's modernization has for quite some years now included acceptance of capitalism in modified forms. And that breaking of complete allegiance to communism with inclusion of some capitalism is what led to the rise of China's power in our time. These things at the type U.S. was in a "Cold War" with the USSR and Soviet bloc could not have been predicted and were frankly not predicted; U.S. instead predicted that we would end up in a nuclear power with USSR, something that also movies of that time reflected because the culture was saturated with that type of hysteria with even drills even happening in schools in the case of an attack.

Fourthly and finally, to be honest, I think it's far more likely if we keep electing globally leaders that are a (a) little "crazy" without being institutionally certifiable, (b) right-wing leaning and (c) incapable of handling situations pragmatically which require both diplomacy and cunning that we're going to inadvertently create a setup that is conducive to the dreaded WWIII that U.S. didn't experience earlier with USSR then. While not completely there yet, the status quo is progressing at an alarming rate of being conducive to WWIII due to the palpable narcissism of globally elected leaders or those standing in dominance as a party within those countries and unfettered nationalism growing in all countries. We're actually sitting on a power keg of a geopolitical situation due to the rising intolerance of "others" everywhere: U.S. keeps irritating Iran, which has in recent history strengthened its ties with Russia with President Donald Trump being ignorant of the fact that the world is not a corporate business in which a person can only make bilateral deals because Russia is now friends with Iran. Russia pretends to aspires to some friendship with the U.S. but probably only because Russia sees the incoming downfall of U.S. in the election of a leader like President Trump whom President Putin believes he will be able to use his cunning to manipulate quite nicely. China has seen fit to hold the largest military demonstration in military history of perhaps the world in recent memory to give U.S. a message. Turkey keeps intermittently threatening Western Europe with letting immigrants that it has taken in travel by way of European Union knowing how citizenry of the countries in EU are mightily concerned about potential terrorists. European Union has its hands full dealing with what it sees as an existential crisis to itself and is therefore likely to deal harshly with U.K. for choosing to opt out of it so as to send a strong message to other countries in the EU that such cannot be done without negative consequences while U.K. keeps trying to put on a good face of this all by pretending that it can get a better deal than is probable. North Korea in a breaking story today a few hours has just vowed to give U.S. "a ruthless blow" should U.S. continue to provoke the country.

2075, huh? Let's survive first 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

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.

Peace.
 
I believe that a realistic assessment of this would include an analysis of how the missionary aspect of the religion is financed. I think today the best way to stop the spread of Islam (and indeed, I believe that Islam is of little use to modern men and women) is to reduce our dependence on Saudi oil. In today's world all things of an artificial nature (and all religions are false fairy stories) require a flow of wealth and resources to perpetuate themselves. Today, the main source of this religion sustaining wealth is probably Saudi Arabia and possibly also Iran. It costs money to build mosques and madrasas. Outreach and recruitment costs a continuing investment. There is nothing inherent in Islam that sustains itself in our modern world. It is a wholly externally funded enterprise. We just have to stop feeding the beast by buying their fucking oil, which is really at the base of any Islamic expansion. The reason Islam is so backward is that it has failed to find a way to justify itself in a market economy on its own. So while their numbers might temporarily expand, they actually mean very little because Islam has not been dealing with 20th and 21st century problems. In the civilized world, religions in general are shrinking and shrink they should

Saudi Arabia has about 1.5% of the worlds Muslims so maybe a different script should spew out from the auto responder this time.

There are almost twice as many Muslims in Europe as in Saudi Arabia.
 
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.


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. I've always wondered when we convert the United States how we will zone the mosques to not offend non-Muslims sleeping in during early morning prayer time.:p
 
Fucking idiots not doing their research before getting their axes out for a good grinding - as usual.

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Most of the growth the report describes is occurring in places like Sub-Saharan Africa, not Europe. So what if Christianity is on the decline in Europe? If non-religious people are gaining ground then that's a good thing. Muslims going from 6 to 10 percent of the population is a fucking triviality compared to problems that actually matter, like the far higher percentages of Westerners who are flocking to batshit insane ultranationalist ideologies, unchecked gun violence, global poverty, or our steady destruction of the environment.

But naw, let's not start threads about any of that, y'all. We need another fucking thread about the non-existent Mooslim invasion of Europe. :rolleyes:
 
Europe has more of this to look forward to;

Up to five people are believed to have been killed in a terrorist attack when a stolen truck rammed into shoppers in Stockholm before running through the city centre shooting at and stabbing pedestrians. Three men were reported to have jumped out of the truck and opened fire. Police said the vehicle crashed into a group of people on the street outside a shopping centre after racing down six streets.
Hundreds of shoppers were seen fleeing for their lives after the articulated truck rammed into the corner of the building. Dozens were believed to have been injured. The driver was said by witnesses to be wearing a balaclava. Two suspects are thought to have been arrested.

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