Pew report: Islam to overtake Christianity as world’s No. 1 religion by 2050

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SOURCE: WORLD TRIBUNE

URL: http://www.worldtribune.com/pew-report-islam-to-overtake-christianity-as-worlds-no-1-religion-by-2050/

Islam will be the world’s No. 1 religion, surpassing Christianity by the end of the century, according to a Pew Research Center study.

Pew projects that the Muslim population will grow by 70 percent worldwide between 2015 and 2060, compared with an overall population growth of 32 percent. That far exceeds the projected growth of the second- and third-fastest growing religions, Christianity and Hinduism, the study said.

The study also said that the Muslim population in the United States will double by 2050.

The Pew study was released last week, the same week that saw the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England, and a gun attack on a bus filled with Coptic Christians in Egypt, both carried out by Muslim jihadists.

The study said that the Muslim population is growing faster as Muslim women are younger and have more babies than Christians and members of other religions. The projected birth rate of Muslim women from 2015 to 2020 is 2.9 babies per woman, compared to a non-Muslim fertility rate of 2.2, the study said.

“Muslims are also the youngest (median age of 24-years-old in 2015) of all major religious groups, seven years younger than the median age of non-Muslims,” the study says. “As a result, a larger share of Muslims already are, or will soon be, at the point in their lives when they begin having children. This, combined with high fertility rates, will fuel Muslim population growth.”

The U.S. Muslim population in 2015 was about 3.3 million or about 1 percent of the population, according to Pew estimates. Two-thirds of the U.S. Muslim population are immigrants.

Pew projects that Muslims will grow to 2.1 percent of the U.S. population by 2050, moving past Judaism as the No. 2 religion in the country.

A 2015 study by Pew indicated that the European Muslim population is much larger and growing nearly as fast. Pew projects Muslims will make up 10 percent of the continent in 2050.

In studies conducted last year, half or more of those polled in Spain, Greece, Poland, Italy and Hungary said they have negative views of Islam. Even in more tolerant Western and Northern Europe, negative views of Islam ranged from 28 percent to 35 percent.

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It will not even take that long.

The Christian church in the West is shrinking at a rate that is truly astounding, and a large number of Christians who claim to be of the faith are lukewarm at best.

If Christians would not stand up to protect prayer in school, or protect Christian displays of faith during holidays, or stand against abortion and homosexual marriage - what makes anyone believe they are going to stand up for their faith when a knife is at their throats?

Chrislam is one of the major growing movements within the church in the USA right now.  It won't take until the end of the century for Islam to become dominant.  Much, much sooner.

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It will not even take that long.

The Christian church in the West is shrinking at a rate that is truly astounding, and a large number of Christians who claim to be of the faith are lukewarm at best.

If Christians would not stand up to protect prayer in school, or protect Christian displays of faith during holidays, or stand against abortion and homosexual marriage - what makes anyone believe they are going to stand up for their faith when a knife is at their throats?

Chrislam is one of the major growing movements within the church in the USA right now.  It won't take until the end of the century for Islam to become dominant.  Much, much sooner.

I believe you are correct on all points.  Personally, I also wonder if the 2050 forecast even attempted to account for the Muslim radicals' rate of killing real or professing Christians.  This rate could skyrocket as more and more Muslims begin to realize that the Koran does demand that Islam's "faithful" perpetrate extreme and ordinarily deadly barbarism against Christians.

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Create a void, something is going to fill it.