mm hmm...
Except atheists aren’t having children at a rate anywhere near that of religious people
Nope. Can't happen.
Answer: And Islam fills the void.
Religion maybe, Jesus No.
The number of those whose salvation justified in the eyes of God is going to be winnowed down to 144,000
Religion as opposed to faith in our Risen Lord? Maybe that would not be such a bad thing.
There is a Grace Revolution afoot sweeping across God’s people. It’s the real deal, what Jude described when he exhorted the church to “earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
I think we’re going to see a great influx of new believers in the next few decades as religiosity drops and faith in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ascends.
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
- C.S. Lewis
*Looks at population of Muslims*
I’m going to lean in the no direction....
Yeah that slow strategy never works. Warren Buffet was only worth 300 mil when he was 50. This guy should read or reread Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents about the role of delayed gratification.
No, but we’re all going to die: believers and unbelievers. Then we’ll all learn something!
Religion IS dying out...
The Murderous Death Cults of Pedophilia Caravan Raiders and Earth worshiping suicidal narcissists are not... sadly...
The religions of Global Warming and Statism seem to be doing just fine.
Intellectuals have been asserting the imminent demise of religion for at least a century. The demise has always been greatly exaggerated.
Yes, it is about to be replaced by the “Science of the Human Soul or Spirit”
It is time for us to learn about the “Anatomy & Physiology of the Soul” rather than just the theories and philosophies of the soul and how it interacts with its environment. these theories and philosophies are our various religions.
I am not saying that the theories, such as Christianity and the Bible are not correct, they are. When an individual grows spiritually, the soul becomes physical to perception and just like the physical body, the differences of opinion between religions becomes minimal.
Again, I’m not discounting Christianity or the Bible. It is very accurate. But when you perceive the soul as physical, you suddenly understand why Jesus and the Bible teach what they do.
Not Islam.
Absurd. Article assumes that being religious/irreligious is an inherited trait; e.g. that progeny of religious will be religious and that the progeny of atheists will be atheists. False premise.
“You are clearly at a disadvantage if you follow a slow strategy when others follow a faster strategy - if you are faithful when others grab sexual opportunities, if you forgive when others avenge, if you work when others have fun.”
Sorta what Jesus was talking about . . . and why it is holy and hard at the same time. But, Jesus didn’t merely “suggest” that we be this way, he commanded it.
That’s my own opinion (but it is not an UNfounded opinion).
Oldplayer
I guess this author hasn’t been paying attention to what’s happening in London.
From The Threat We Face by David Horowitz:
"An SDS radical wrote in the Sixties: “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” The Alinsky version is this: The issue is never the issue; the issue is always power : How to wring power out of the democratic process, how turn the process into an instrument of progressive control. How to use it to fundamentally transform the United States of America."
And no, a belief in God is not going away. Hopefully a resurgence of Judeo/Christian ethics and local church affiliation is on the rise with families in America.
"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: 'Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.' Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Edward E. Ericson, Jr., “Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag,” Eternity, October 1985, pp. 23-4)
The push for atheism by the left and the concomitant alliance with Islam - "Enemy of my enemy is my friend." - will be the push over the next 100 yrs to destroy capitalism.
We can't let that happen. Pray for America and prepare.
Not with bearded savages. They are getting more religious.