Christianity- The fastest growing faith?

RipleyCountyChristian · Jan 1, 2011

Christianity taking over planet?

I was on K-Love and checking the news on there and I saw the lnik to this page, I thought it was pretty cool. It talks about how Christianity is really really surging in Africa and Asia, thousands of converts a day. People meeting in secret, in peoples homes, in caves...believers in hiding, but spreading like wildfire.

I don't know how true it all is, but I trust K-Love and there is a book about it mentioned in the article. I hope and pray it is true though. To know that people are truly seeing and realizing God working in today's world.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=245201

HarborOrange · Jan 2, 2011

RipleyCountyChristian said:
Christianity taking over planet?

I was on K-Love and checking the news on there and I saw the lnik to this page, I thought it was pretty cool. It talks about how Christianity is really really surging in Africa and Asia, thousands of converts a day. People meeting in secret, in peoples homes, in caves...believers in hiding, but spreading like wildfire.

I don't know how true it all is, but I trust K-Love and there is a book about it mentioned in the article. I hope and pray it is true though. To know that people are truly seeing and realizing God working in today's world.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=245201

That is definitely cool, no doubt about that... Sadly, Islam is also finding its place in the world, and has always been the fastest growing faith. Hopefully Christianity can one day over take Islam in that realm.

RipleyCountyChristian · Jan 2, 2011

Yeah for sure, they always say that Islam is the fastest growing faith, but to hear that Christianity is growing in exponential numbers definitely is great to hear.

lovernotafighter · Jan 2, 2011

That's because Muslim people have babies. Europe's birth rate is less than 2 now, which is why they're being taken over. Christians don't have enough kids over there.

RipleyCountyChristian · Jan 2, 2011

Right, in Asia and Africa....they are always having babies, while in the Western World(Europe included)....people aren't having a lot of kids...

lovernotafighter · Jan 2, 2011

RipleyCountyChristian said:
Right, in Asia and Africa....they are always having babies, while in the Western World(Europe included)....people aren't having a lot of kids...

I can't decide if this is sarcastic or not.

RipleyCountyChristian · Jan 2, 2011

nope not at all

BanoffeePies · Jan 6, 2011

RipleyCountyChristian said:
Yeah for sure, they always say that Islam is the fastest growing faith, but to hear that Christianity is growing in exponential numbers definitely is great to hear.

The Islamification of Europe and how unreligious it is, is often over-exaggerated. Might have high birth rates, but still a tiny minority.

The Fourth Horseman · Apr 1, 2011

Huh, I always thought Islam was the fastest growing. Though conversly, I've heard for about every 2 Christian converts gained in Africa and Asia about 1 person deconverts in Europe and the USA.

It think Europes atheist population is on the rise as is Americas. Americas was at like 12% or so last I checked but I'd put the real number much higher maybe 30% due to a large number of closet atheists or people who still attend churches but don't beleive it.

Good 'ol Sweden is like 85% atheist/agnostic.

The Fourth Horseman · Apr 1, 2011

lovernotafighter said:
I can't decide if this is sarcastic or not.

Nah, it's true. Atleast for Africa. Just about all of Sub-Sahran Africa is Christian so there really isn't anyone to convert. It grows by birth. Asia on the other hand is legitamant "conversion" but the percentages fo the population following Christianity are still extremely low. Usually less than 4%.

BanoffeePies · Apr 1, 2011

The Fourth Horseman said:
Huh, I always thought Islam was the fastest growing. Though conversly, I've heard for about every 2 Christian converts gained in Africa and Asia about 1 person deconverts in Europe and the USA.

It think Europes atheist population is on the rise as is Americas. Americas was at like 12% or so last I checked but I'd put the real number much higher maybe 30% due to a large number of closet atheists or people who still attend churches but don't beleive it.

Good 'ol Sweden is like 85% atheist/agnostic.

Yeah unfortunately atheist/agnostic population is pretty large and rising in Europe. However it should be noted that the population Western Europe only accounts of a small portion of the total worlds population, an its ageing and declining population. Evangelicalism is rising, and one statistic I remember noted how church-goers tended to have more children than secular non-believers in Europe, which could cause this decline in religion to stop. Sady for atheists, religion probably won't die anytime soon.

PhilosophicalBluster · Apr 5, 2011

BanoffeePies said:
Yeah unfortunately atheist/agnostic population is pretty large and rising in Europe. However it should be noted that the population Western Europe only accounts of a small portion of the total worlds population, an its ageing and declining population. Evangelicalism is rising, and one statistic I remember noted how church-goers tended to have more children than secular non-believers in Europe, which could cause this decline in religion to stop. Sady for atheists, religion probably won't die anytime soon.

To be atheist does not mean you want religion to die. It means you don't believe in god. Chill your nips, let's not get hasty here.

EmmaXO · Jan 24, 2012

The atheist countries are also some of the happiest countries.

Chilaha · Jan 25, 2012

EmmaXO said:
The atheist countries are also some of the happiest countries.

I'm surprised you say that. They had a survey and it said people though that without religion there would actually be more sadness and war.

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