Posted on 04/04/2015 5:25:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.
Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity.
Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.
Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. The Pew study predicts Christians will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population.
This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim. And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers.
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post nasal drip?
Islam is in crisis around Israel as they no longer have such big families. I wonder if the same people that put out employment numbers made this survey.
The fastest growing religion is ... religion.
At the rate of the successful Obama foreign policy...Muslims slaughtering Muslims, Sunni verses Shitte...
Their numbers might be much lower...
The fastest growing religion is ... religion.
I wonder how atheism is doing?
**Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam’s explosive rate.**
We need to cease the contraception and have more babies.
Islam is a dying religion.
Hell, Islam kills.
convert or death is powerful motivation
With all those robots, I predict robotology will increase the most.
As long as muslims can kill their competition they will be successful. If Christians could talk freely about Christ in muslim countries islam would dry up and blow away in a few decades.
2050 I will be 81....good gracious to have to truly see the World fall apart will be horrible.
I am going to try to grow the Catholic religion in my town by telling everyone that they either become Catholic, pay me $10,000 or I’ll kill them....that’s the way the muslims do it.....how hard can it be to increase your enrollmment???
Moslem doubling in twenty or so years? War on women.
How about you, your wife, and your newborn all get roasted in your sleep at 3am, all because your government decided to nuke Tel Aviv?
That's how it should work, and hopefully will work, should Iran ever nuke Israel!
Keep a close eye on China, which is seeing more people come to faith in the Lord Jesus.
It too is a religion .... not a relationship with God
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