Posted on 04/07/2015 6:14:58 PM PDT by juliosevero
I have read the study and there is a lot of good news for Christianity in here.
The study is based purely on demographics— not conversion.
Islam has negligible conversion capacity. It is quite alienating.
Christianity has most of its gains mostly through conversion. Ignoring that factor suggests that Christianity will in fact continue to be much larger throughout the century.
The study also discounts almost entirely the Christian population of china. In the appendix, they acknowledge that if they are even slightly off in undercounting Chinese Christians, it would complete change the statistics dramatically because it is the largest national population in the world.
There could easily be 100 million Christians in China instead of 10 million or fewer. In such a world, it would be difficult to match christianity for growth. Christianity will grow dramatically in Africa and has huge potential in China and Asia broadly based on conversion.
The potential collapse of closed societies means evangelism could brings tens of millions of additional Christians that Islam is poorly positioned to gain. The data also points to a demographic decline of Islam beginning in 2070-— that is probably why Pew featured that point in time. if you study the arcs of Christianity and Islam in the charts, it seems rather clear that the Islam arc will begin to bend back down as their demographics change.
The charts tend to downplay the demographic collapse happening in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other parts of the radical Islamic world.
I think Christianity will likely continue to grow into a much larger religion in the world —perhaps approaching 40%. Christianity is and will be for some time arguably the most popular idea in the world.
So let’s kill 800 million of them...
Does this assume current fertility rates remain constant over the next 55 years?
50 years?
They will be cinders by then.
http://theblessedlife.co/newsletter/2015/easter/TheFirstEaster.mp3
Highly recommend everyone give this a listen. Robert Morris-Gateway (Scripture that to some will be mindboggling with answers to questions so aptly explained)
The final chapter of life on this earth as we know it has already been written. The victory has been recorded. Sadly many are not heeding the call.
Well now that just depends on whether there’s another Crusade....doesn’t it?
Very interesting information. I have searched in Google after it, but I have not found it. Please, could you give me some like to this information?
By 2070, I suspect the entire world will be Christians.
I agree with this, many good point you have made... In particular, I have a friend in China who is doing missionary work...reports many openly Christian and many more who are in the closet, afraid to speak out too loudly.
We are going to need a few more Sikhs and Gurkhas.
“Islam still has zer0 worthwhile content.”
Islam may be a brutal religion currently built largely upon war on other faiths, but it takes a fool to deny the few things it does right or rather a few things modern ‘western’ or ‘de-christianized western’ culture is now self-destructively doing wrong with disastrous long term consequences.
Instead of embracing family and God, we have leaders embracing sodomy and other forms of self-destruction and sin that only push us further into relative decline. As a result the west has very little in the way of a future, at least as a major faith.
The west is dying of a cultural plague known as leftist multicultural secularism that is decidedly anti-family and anti-life. Islam for everything it does wrong it rejects that, that alone gives their faith an edge into the future.
“Given the speed with which they are murdering Christians and Jews, it will probably be much earlier than 2070. “
When they start taking over christian countries and enacting their laws there will be a flood of converts from the currently weak faith or faithless leftist that survive largely out of fear for their life or desire for power.
Islam for all its problems has managed to reject the one cultural poison of liberalism that has been destroying the western(formerly christian) world. As long as that doesn’t change they will inevitably win the battle of civilization, and come to dominate the earth.
[[Islam to surpass Christianity by 2070]]
Jesus to return by 2069
The atheists and agnostics would run back to church if that shtf.
I’m not finding it myself. I’m pretty sure it was posted in FR. I think it was TheKoreanTimes.
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