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Posted on 05/23/2007 9:21:32 AM PDT by NYer
Edited on 05/23/2007 9:36:51 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
From Muslims in Europe to evangelical Christians in Africa, it is religious believers who are shaping the early 21st Century. Charismatic movements are sweeping throughout the Southern Hemisphere, while high birth rates among immigrants are provoking soul-seeking in the historically Christian West. For this week's List, FP looks at the fast-growing faiths that are upending the old world order.
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
It’s all about birth rates.
As Mark Steyn says, go to see Europe now while it still exists. In 20 years Europe as we know will be gone.
Large families are the muslim’s greatest weapon.
Global warming side-effect alert.
My son is a Bahai and is raising his children in that cult. BUT he has a praying mother!
invasion-slaughter-re-populate (repeat steps as necessary)
- their means of spreading their religion
I once lived in a condo development and we had a few Muslim neighbors.
One family down the hallway was the typical Wahabbi/Salafist hardline variety. The husband (in his mid to late 30’s) absolutely refused to say hello to me or my wife the infidel kufars over the couple years we lived there. His wife wore an attractive bag-like black burkha, and of course also refused to say hello, even if trapped in the elevators with her for 20 floors.
Usually when we saw the wife she would have two little kids in the baby carriage, and two little toddlers she could drag around by hand. I think it’s safe to say she was popping one little Muslim every year.
http://www.hispanicmuslims.com/piedad/_hola.html
“The struggle of Latino Americans closely resembles that of the African-Americans. “As is the case for the Latino-American community, which is a disadvantaged community, the Afro-American community feels often abandoned by the Church and the government,” according to Hisham Aidi, a student in political science at Columbia University. According to him, conversion to Islam is then a means of distinguishing oneself, of feeling better about oneself and of acquiring a new sense of belonging. The means by which the Latino-Americans are brought to Islam are often the same as for the African-Americans: contacts with associations that assist young people, with preachers in prisons, in schools, in ghettos, and on the street.”
Bottom line .... Christianity is the largest and fastest growing religion in the world.
Thanks for the video, but I would like to point out two things that are always true, without fault:
1: Texas is a part of the US. And in the US we guarantee the right to choose your religion. Of course we can all count the other countries that allow independent religion on one hand.
2: Whenever I hear a british accent I expect to hear lies, conjured feelings of hatred, and someone calling someone else “conservative / bigot / christian”.
It’s pathetic, the way that this video has pulled it’s pants down and sha* upon the great state of Texas, and the whole of the US.
-> Steve
Bush Akbar
Would like to see things broke down a little more, but it is interesting that they label “Christians” as 2.2 billion.
Which would give about .7-.9 billion Christians of non RCC or EOC churches. Which is pretty close to some other stuff I read, but far from some others.
“Bottom line .... Christianity is the largest and fastest growing religion in the world.”
Absolutely. The article doesn’t even take into account the Chinese house church movement. Some estimates are that there are now more evangelical Christians in China than in all of Europe and the U.S. combined.
That's pretty much how it was with the first Christian churches wasn't it?
The Chinese house church movement is reminder of how the early Christian church was like.
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Strange, as a Baha'i he should be anxious to be praying with you, he's taken on a heck of a lot of motivation to build bridges and stress things in common.
My son WAS a Christian before he became a Bahai, something that bothers me no end. It’s a cultish religion and I wish he’d come back to Jesus, that’s why I pray for them.
Secularism, liberalism and their principal feature, feminism, are self-limiting cultural disorders. In a few generations, they disappear. Unfortunately, what is replacing them is worse.
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