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Islam on Track to Overtake Christianity, Become the World’s Biggest Religion [says Pew]
Cybercast News Service ^ | March 3, 2017 | 4:31 AM EST | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 03/04/2017 4:57:45 PM PST by Olog-hai

By the middle of this century, the number of Muslims worldwide will roughly equal those of Christians and by the century’s end will exceed them, making Islam the world’s largest religion.

That’s according to projections in a new analysis by the Pew Research Center, which identifies Islam as the world’s fastest-growing religion, owing to higher fertility rates and the fact Muslims have the youngest median age of all religious groups.

In 2010, 1.6 billion Muslims accounted for 23.2 percent of the total world population; Pew says that proportion could grow to 29.7 percent by 2050, and to 34.9 percent by 2100. By contrast Christians comprised 31.4 percent of the population in 2010, and will account for about 33.8 percent in 2100, Pew projects.

Current demographic trends indicate that the Muslim population will soar by 73 percent between 2010 and 2050, compared to an increase of 35 percent for Christians — which is in line with overall global population growth over that period — 34 percent for Hindus and 16 percent for Jews. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: christianity; islam; muslimdemographics; pewresearch; rop
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1 posted on 03/04/2017 4:57:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Wasn’t Pew the same group that predicted the Chinese economy would overtake ours by 2016?

The elites sure aren’t very.


2 posted on 03/04/2017 4:59:58 PM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Olog-hai

Nowhere in that analysis do I see the “net growth.”

Net growth = Shla killing Sunni.

Pew, this stinks.

5.56mm


3 posted on 03/04/2017 5:01:23 PM PST by M Kehoe
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Christianity is the fastest growing Religion
4 posted on 03/04/2017 5:01:49 PM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: Olog-hai

Not any future for Baal, Dagon worshippers.


5 posted on 03/04/2017 5:03:14 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: Olog-hai

Islam is on track to the Judgment of the God of the Bible- see Zechariah 12, and Joel 3, as well as Pslam 83 Satan looses, Hallelujah!


6 posted on 03/04/2017 5:03:53 PM PST by pastorbillrandles (ore and rebuild Jerusalem)
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To: Sasparilla

LOL! Didn’t dear leader say something once about who the future doesn’t belong to? Islam is doomed, and so also are all of its supporters and enablers... they are on the wrong side for sure!


7 posted on 03/04/2017 5:05:12 PM PST by pastorbillrandles (ore and rebuild Jerusalem)
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To: Olog-hai

Mathew 7:13


8 posted on 03/04/2017 5:07:18 PM PST by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: Olog-hai

And? From the same prognosticators that gave us climate change. Pure speculation and nonsense. They cannot tell us who will go to church tomorrow, yet they know what will happen by the end of the century? Paging Paul Ehrlich. Liberals are always wrong, continue to be wrong, and never take responsibility for their phony predictions.


9 posted on 03/04/2017 5:08:27 PM PST by Fungi (Every breath, another five thousand fungal spores enter your body. All five thousand will be named.)
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To: M Kehoe

Shia dagnabit.

5.56mm


10 posted on 03/04/2017 5:08:51 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Olog-hai

identifies Islam as the world’s fastest-growing religion, owing to higher fertility rates and the fact Muslims have the youngest median age of all religious groups.....

......and they kill anybody who wants to leave their “religion”.


11 posted on 03/04/2017 5:08:55 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

Could happen, especially if you don’t count the rapidly increasing level of conversions across Africa and China.


12 posted on 03/04/2017 5:10:02 PM PST by arthurus (.)
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It's a little hard to refuse their evangelism tactics.

It's growing not because it's attractive but because it's forced.

13 posted on 03/04/2017 5:11:14 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: Olog-hai

Only if you consider Islam a religion.


14 posted on 03/04/2017 5:11:48 PM PST by TigersEye (We all have a stake in MAGA! We all need to contribute our efforts.)
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To: M Kehoe

Christianity in much of the developed world , Europe and America is declining pretty fast but is growing in Arfica and China. In the West the dearth of births relative to the baby every year or two Moslems means that a small percentage Moslems like we have can become a numerical majority in maybe half a century without further imports.


15 posted on 03/04/2017 5:13:18 PM PST by arthurus (.)
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To: Olog-hai

Crusades 2.0


16 posted on 03/04/2017 5:14:28 PM PST by umgud
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To: Olog-hai

just means they rape more than they blow themselves up.


17 posted on 03/04/2017 5:14:59 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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Thanks Jorge

Thanks Barry


18 posted on 03/04/2017 5:15:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (government)
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To: Olog-hai

If you don’t believe in these godless bastards — THEY KILL YOU!!! No Wonder!!


19 posted on 03/04/2017 5:17:38 PM PST by WENDLE (Watch this on John McCain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0mHEJyC3Y)
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To: Olog-hai

Fake news and false facts. Pew has Muslim owners in their mix and they lie.


20 posted on 03/04/2017 5:17:45 PM PST by Mechanicos
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