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CNN ^ | 04/04/2015 | Daniel Burke

Posted on 04/04/2015 5:25:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.

Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity.

Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.

Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. The Pew study predicts Christians will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population.

This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim. And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: christianity; fastestgrowing; islam; pew; pewstudy; religions
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1 posted on 04/04/2015 5:25:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Not if I can help it
2 posted on 04/04/2015 5:27:56 PM PDT by knarf
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post nasal drip?


3 posted on 04/04/2015 5:28:03 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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Islam is in crisis around Israel as they no longer have such big families. I wonder if the same people that put out employment numbers made this survey.


4 posted on 04/04/2015 5:31:39 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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The fastest growing religion is ... religion.


5 posted on 04/04/2015 5:37:03 PM PDT by knarf
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To: SeekAndFind

At the rate of the successful Obama foreign policy...Muslims slaughtering Muslims, Sunni verses Shitte...

Their numbers might be much lower...


6 posted on 04/04/2015 5:41:12 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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The fastest growing religion is ... religion.

I wonder how atheism is doing?


7 posted on 04/04/2015 5:41:49 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

**Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam’s explosive rate.**

We need to cease the contraception and have more babies.


8 posted on 04/04/2015 5:43:44 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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9 posted on 04/04/2015 5:47:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Islam is a dying religion.

Hell, Islam kills.


10 posted on 04/04/2015 6:08:12 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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convert or death is powerful motivation


11 posted on 04/04/2015 6:09:05 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.

With all those robots, I predict robotology will increase the most.


12 posted on 04/04/2015 6:31:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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As long as muslims can kill their competition they will be successful. If Christians could talk freely about Christ in muslim countries islam would dry up and blow away in a few decades.


13 posted on 04/04/2015 6:47:15 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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2050 I will be 81....good gracious to have to truly see the World fall apart will be horrible.


14 posted on 04/04/2015 7:23:25 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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I am going to try to grow the Catholic religion in my town by telling everyone that they either become Catholic, pay me $10,000 or I’ll kill them....that’s the way the muslims do it.....how hard can it be to increase your enrollmment???


15 posted on 04/04/2015 7:26:31 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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Moslem doubling in twenty or so years? War on women.


16 posted on 04/05/2015 1:22:55 AM PDT by exnavy (An armed society is a polite society.)
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I am going to try to grow the Catholic religion in my town by telling everyone that they either become Catholic, pay me $10,000 or I’ll kill them....that’s the way the muslims do it.....how hard can it be to increase your enrollmment???

How about you, your wife, and your newborn all get roasted in your sleep at 3am, all because your government decided to nuke Tel Aviv?

That's how it should work, and hopefully will work, should Iran ever nuke Israel!

17 posted on 04/05/2015 1:38:33 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep a close eye on China, which is seeing more people come to faith in the Lord Jesus.


18 posted on 04/05/2015 3:18:52 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: mountainlion

It too is a religion .... not a relationship with God


19 posted on 04/05/2015 4:00:35 AM PDT by knarf
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To: elpadre
convert or death is powerful motivation

It worked for early Christianity...
20 posted on 04/05/2015 8:33:28 AM PDT by StormPrepper
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