The author Ignores the embrace of contraception as much being a social "sacrament," the "cure" that can kill a country and church.
Biblically, one is either to choose to be celibate and continent, or to be married and bear all the children God enables, as a product of a temperate lifestyle.
More stats: https://onlybyland.com/fastest-growing-religions/
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Hopefully Muslim becomes zero sooner rather than later
Hindu numbers can’t be right. Most Indians are in arranged marriages where their have intense desire for grandchildren.
Do they have a further breakdown, perhaps by various protestant churches?
Some “protestant” churches are very “woke”. Some are very focused on the word of God.
Lots of small children at the Church I attend.
The author assumes current trends will continue.
They almost always change. A 25 year projection is only a reasonable guess, if nothing dramatic happens.
Lots of very dramatic things are happening.
Somewhat related:
“MAGA Is the New ‘Rage Against the Machine’ for GenZers Tired of ‘Establishment’ Democrats”
“.... GenZers and other young people are seeing conservatism as cool and, dare I say, counter-cultural. It is an idea that has been emerging for quite a while. Cooper says that GenZers are tired of being taunted and called racists. Are they beginning to see that progressivism has no interest in their freedom of speech? As GenZers graduate from college and escape the academic bubble of progressivism, they want to do things like buy a home. But, for many GenZers, the real-life concept of a bad economy is creeping in on the fantasies of progressivism.”
In Canada, the TFR is only 1.26 children per woman. But here in southern Alberta, the Latter-day Saints have a lot more children than average. I have seven myself, but most families have 2-4 children. I’d be curious to know the actual figure though.
They don’t list Zoroastrians. The only Zoroastrian couple I know has one child, now a young adult, so evidently no more planned. That makes for a figure of 1.00.
Natural selection? { snicker }