Christianity is experience 3 to 1 ratio of disaffilation among young people

[Demovictory9]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/islam-grows-christianity-slips-as-share-of-world-population-survey-finds/ar-AA1Got6W

Islam grows, Christianity slips as share of world population, survey finds© Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP

While Christians remained the world’s largest religious group at the end of the decade that ended in 2020, Christianity’s growth did not keep up with global population increase. But Islam — the world’s fastest-growing major religion — increased its share of the world population, as did the religiously unaffiliated, the Pew Research Center found in a report released Monday.

Even as the overall number of Christians — counted as one group, across denominations — continued to climb to 2.3 billion, the religion’s share of the world’s population decreased by 1.8 percentage points to 28.8 percent, a falloff driven in large part by disaffiliation. The Muslim population, on the other hand, increased by 1.8 percentage points to 25.6 percent, according to the report, which examined changes in religious demographics through an analysis of more than 2,700 censuses and surveys.

“It’s just striking that there was such dramatic change in a 10-year period,” said Pew’s Conrad Hackett, the lead author of the report. “During this time, the Muslim and Christian populations grew closer in size. Muslims grew faster than any other major religion.”

The report attributed the growth in Islam to a younger Muslim population — with an average age of about 24, as opposed to a global average age among non-Muslims of about 33 as of 2020 — along with higher fertility rates in some areas and lower rates of disaffiliation as compared with other religions, including Christianity.

“Among young adults, for every person around the world who becomes Christian, there are three people who are raised Christian who leave,” Hackett said.

[Javaman]

1. I left a long time ago (53 years ago) and never looked back. nt

[Moostache]

2. This is absolutely predictable...

1) Have a religion of mass numbers and no meaningful reformation - Islam fits, Christianity had its over 500 years ago...
2) Threaten apostates with death and hack off the heads of a few for good measure... Popes used to have excommunication and Inquisitions and other terrors, Imans have terrorists and the internet now...my money is on the modern technology to easily outstrip the olden days with ease...
3) Keep the population starving, ignorant and in a state of religious furvor at all times... This STILL is Modus Operandi for much of Christianity (tele-vangelists come to mind, but so do the cathedrals and chruches of Europe and the world while billions still live lives of total desperation and on the edge of starvation daily)...

Christianity is just the most successful of THOUSANDS of religions throughout human history, and realistically that is due in no small part to the decision of Constantine to adopt the fledgling cult as state religion for the most power empire of his age. It will be surpassed by Islam and the availability of modern telecommunications, Islam will undergo a reformation and moderation of its own in the future, and the wheel will just keep on turning.

Everyone should admit that we are all AT BEST Agnostics towards 30,000-odd 'gods', even if we profess one or none! (Yes, I am talking to those damn pesky Apolloian Guards and the Daughters of Zeus who keep drawing lightning bolts on everything...LOL)

No one actually knows; and to ask "what happens after you die?" is as non-sensical as asking "what happened before you were conceived?" There is no 'meaning' to life, no over-arching goal or purpose, least of all one devised as a "plan" by an old man-like figure in a flowing white beard and to-die-for flowing mane of white hair - to live IS the reason, it IS the purpose. And anyone or anything that tells you THEY have the answers, BUT ONLY IF you obey/submit/tithe/pay is properly LYING TO YOU and laughing about it around their luxury living accomodations.

[Ping Tung]

3. "You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"

Mark Twain