Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says

BBC News ^ | March 22, 2011 | Jason Palmer

[van_erwin]

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.

The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.

The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.

The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

[wbarmy]

Are you comparing the “remnant of the believers” (Isa 6:13) to dogcrap?

[bigheadfred]

No, the freeking moslems.

They never did have a religion.

So I thought you meant a remnant of them would be saved.

moslems=dogcrap

[stboz]

The longer Jesus delays, the more believers He will lose. People's faith has its limit in human frailty. I wonder if He forgives those who sincerely question Him but perceive no answer?

IOW, I'm tired of talking to myself and reading a book.

[hinckley buzzard]

Predictably and sadly, none of the nine nations are Muslim

Not yet. Just wait though. Nature abhors a vacuum. Where Christianity dies out damn near anything will move in to take its place.

Islam will not again have to lay siege to the Gates of Vienna, they will only have to walk in and take control. Dittoes for the rest of the dying outposts of civilization.

[bigheadfred]

Chocolate. That’s where the entire answer lies. Chocolate.

[wbarmy]

I said God always has a remnant. God has nothing to do with what the muslims have. They need to look a little (lot) lower for their authority.

[stboz]

Gosh! That was impressive; I’m eating chocolate coated coffee beans right now.

[bigheadfred]

See? We are in complete agreement.

[bigheadfred]

Just consider the miracle of chocolate.

IT MELTS IN YOUR MOUTH AND NOT IN YOUR HAND!!!

JUST A HAPPY LITTLE COINCIDENCE????

I think not...

[hinckley buzzard]

I am aware that in the Anglican communion, and to some extent the Lutheran federation, the Churches of the South are far more vital and robust than the etiolated pseudo-churches of western europe and the anglosphere.

The African bishops are far more educated and frankly far more intelligent than the degenerate bishops of England US and Canada, who mainly are in it for the money, perks and "prestige."

[hinckley buzzard]

I don't think so. During WW I there were a plethora of reports of miracles and divine sightings, especially along the western front. Between the wars the Lutheran and Catholic churches were alive and well. The loss of faith in the euro churches is a direct result of the welfare state, which became, literally, their "divine Providence," as well as secular financier of the corporate church entities, relieving the parishioner of the opportunity to give something of himself.