Posted on 04/30/2013 11:41:30 AM PDT by pinochet
Before we talk about comparative birth rates in Muslim and Christian nations, we have to talk about a weakness that 21st Century Christianity faces in its competition with Islam. A Martyr in the Christian religion is one who dies for his faith. A Martyr in the Muslim religion is not just one who dies for his faith, but one who kills for his faith. How is Christianity going to compete with people who are not just willing to die for their religion, but to kill for their religion?
Birth rates among almost all Western Christian nations are below replacement, and that includes America. Eastern European birth rates are also below replacement. In the non-white areas of the world that have Christians, e.g. Latin America and Africa, they look to Europeans as their role models, because Europe brought Christianity to those countries. But Europe's greatest export is socialism, and many Latin American and African nations are embracing socialism. Latin America has Hugo Chavez and Bolivia has Evo Morales, while Africa has Mandela and Mugabe, all socialist/communist trend-setters for those regions.
One of the consequences of socialism is excessive use of contraception and abortion. The ANC legalized abortion in South Africa in 1997. You are going to see more use of contraception and abortion among third world Christians, because they see Europeans as their role models. Third world immigrants to Europe and America vote for left-wing political parties, which are pro-abortion.
What about the Muslim world? They encourage polygamy, which increases the number of children. Nigeria is today split 50-50 between Muslims and Christians. But Nigerian Christians are better educated, practice monogamy, and use contraception. The Muslims in Northern Nigeria impose sharia and burkas on their women, discourage contraception, and practice polygamy, which maximizes the number of children. What is significant about Nigeria? The country has the largest population of any country in Africa, of 160 million. Where Nigeria goes, the rest of Africa will follow.
With regard to India, I came across this anti-Jihad website that reveals that India's Muslims are out-breeding the Hindus: http://sioespain.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/study-shows-that-muslims-will-conquer-the-world-by-2050/
The website says that India's Hindu women are having 2.9 children per woman, while India's Muslims are having 4.1 children per family.
We need to remember that Turkey was once a Christian nation, the heart of the great Christian Byzantine Empire. The biggest Turkish City, Istanbul, used to be called Constantinople, a city named after a Christian emperor, Constantine. The North African nations of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, were also, at one time, Christian nations.
And the remainder of the countries? Outdated as well?
Mostly, yes.
There are many Muslims converting to Christianity in Indoneisa — which is a doubled-edge sword for the transformation of Indonesia.
Here’s another story on the phenomenon:
http://my.news.yahoo.com/christian-indonesia-big-threat-to-malaysia-says-muslim-052831228.html
Muslims are worried and they claim that TWO MILLION Muslims convert to Christianity in Indonesia every year — and here’s a YouTube video the Muslims made to counteract this trend:
Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population. A transformation here would be a huge defeat for Islam and a huge victory for Christianity.
Thank you for these links. I’d like think they are reacting to a real wave of conversions, and not just using “Alarm” for fundraising purposes. Wonderful to think of these kids coming to Christ!
It is nice to hear about how at least in some parts of the world. It’s still sad to see how America pretty much has kicked it’s founding heritage to the curb, when it’s founders wanted to set up a place that somewhat avoided the pitfalls of Europe. It’s the tragedy of America pretty much trying to bite the divine hand that fed it, and gave it prosperity.
If anything there is out there I would say, I would rather face the oppression of Islam at this point, then deal with the crude, vulgar, and extremely blasphemous disregard for God that so much of the extreme secularism in the Western World entails
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