Hey you pathetic puss, heard you were ripping my kids again, Psycho. Some things never change...
On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 9:45:36 AM UTC-6, plainolamerican wrote: > Religious Affiliation in US Today Christian 71% Jewish 2% Muslim 1% Hindu > 1% Buddhist 1% Other 2% Unaffiliated 23% > --- > > 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 > <http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/> by > the Pew Research Center. > > > The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity. > [image: More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" around > the Norwegian capital's synagogue on February 21, 2015. Young Muslims > took the initiative after a series of attacks against Jews in Europe.] > Photos: Muslims form 'Ring of peace' at Oslo synagogue > [image: <a > href="http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/">In > > January, terrorists killed 19 people over three days in Paris, > </a>including attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and on > a Kosher grocery. Last week five teens were charged with vandalizing a > Jewish cemetery in eastern France.] > <http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/> > [image: <a > href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/01/13/exp-cyril-berdugo-9a.cnn">Anti-Semitism > > has increased in Europe,</a> especially since the most recent <a > href="http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/">Gaza > > conflict and the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.</a>] > <http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/01/13/exp-cyril-berdugo-9a.cnn> > <http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/> > [image: More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" around > the Norwegian capital's synagogue on February 21, 2015. Young Muslims > took the initiative after a series of attacks against Jews in Europe.] > [image: The peaceful protest follows the shooting at a free speech debate > and synagogue in Denmark that left <a > href="http://cnn.com/2015/02/14/europe/denmark-shooting/">two > people dead and five wounded.</a>] > <http://cnn.com/2015/02/14/europe/denmark-shooting/> > [image: <a > href="http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/">In > > January, terrorists killed 19 people over three days in Paris, > </a>including attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and on > a Kosher grocery. Last week five teens were charged with vandalizing a > Jewish cemetery in eastern France.] > <http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/> > [image: <a > href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/01/13/exp-cyril-berdugo-9a.cnn">Anti-Semitism > > has increased in Europe,</a> especially since the most recent <a > href="http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/">Gaza > > conflict and the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.</a>] > <http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/01/13/exp-cyril-berdugo-9a.cnn> > <http://cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/anti-semitism-in-denmark/> > [image: More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" around > the Norwegian capital's synagogue on February 21, 2015. Young Muslims > took the initiative after a series of attacks against Jews in Europe.] > [image: The peaceful protest follows the shooting at a free speech debate > and synagogue in Denmark that left <a > href="http://cnn.com/2015/02/14/europe/denmark-shooting/">two > people dead and five wounded.</a>] > <http://cnn.com/2015/02/14/europe/denmark-shooting/> > [image: Norway Ring Peace 4] > [image: Norway Ring Peace 3] > [image: Norway Ring Peace 1] > [image: Norway Ring Peace 2] > 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. > Looking even farther into the future, Islam's population could surpass > Christianity by 2100, Pew says, despite Christians' six-century head start. > (It's possible that Muslims outnumbered Christians some time in the past, > perhaps during the Black Plague that decimated Europe. But scholars aren't > certain.) > Based in Washington, Pew is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that regularly > produces sweeping surveys of this kind without taking public policy > positions. Six years in the making, its study collected data from 234 > countries and territories to predict the fate of five major faiths -- > Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk > religions and the religiously unaffiliated, including atheists. > The study, which Pew says is the first of its kind, bases its projections > on the age of populations, fertility and mortality rates, as well as > migration and conversion patterns. Simply put, Muslims are having larger > families, retaining more members (conversions are illegal in some Muslim > nations) and are younger than adherents of other faiths. More than 1 in 3 > Muslims is younger than 15. > But religious trends have never been measured on the study's vast scale, > Pew says, so a few cautions are in order. > First, the population projections are based on current data and > assumptions about demographic trends. For example, Muslim women have an > average of three children, the highest of any religious group. In the > future, if education and employment rates rise, those numbers could change. > Second, nobody at Pew has a crystal ball, so events like cataclysmic wars, > rampaging diseases, natural disasters and economic meltdowns could throw > the numbers off. > But it's clear from the 245-page report > <http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/> that > Pew and the demographic experts they consulted did their homework, so the > study is worth taking seriously. With that in mind, here are some of the > study's top findings about what the world will look like -- at least, > faith-wise -- in 2050. > -- Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people will increase > in the United States (from 16% to 26%). > -- Also in the United States, Christians will drop from to 66% of > population. Muslims will surpass Jews as the largest non-Christian religion > in the U.S. > -- Sub-Saharan African will be home to 40% of the Christian population and > Nigeria have more Christians than any other country except for the United > States and Brazil. > -- India will have the largest Muslim population in the world, passing > Indonesia, but Hindus will retain a majority. > -- More than 10% of Europeans will be Muslim, while the number of > Christians in Europe will drop by 100 million. > -- Hinduism (1.4 billion adherents) and Judaism (16 million) will > increase, while Buddhists will be about the same size as in 2010 (5.2 > million). > -- In the coming decades, 106 million people are projected to leave > Christianity. (46 million will convert to Christianity, offsetting the > losses a little.) > -- The number of countries with Christian majorities will drop to 151, as > Christians are projected to decrease in Australia, Benin, > Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of > Macedonia and the United Kingdom. > -- Muslims are expected to make up more than 50% of the population in 51 > countries, including the Republic of Macedonia and Nigeria. > > On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 8:45:21 PM UTC-6, Kamakazee wrote: >> >> Ouchie. > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. 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