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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I didn't mean to limit it to Christianity, that was just an example. Organized religion in general is enjoying a renewal around the world. [/quote]

Although it doesn't capture global trends, the results of the global Pew survey of religion (http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/) would indicate that might not be the case, and even if it is accurate, the survey is better news for Hinduism and Islam than it is for Christianity.

According to the study, the median age of Muslims (23) and Hindus (26) is significantly lower than the global median age of 28 years old.

Other than Muslims and Hindus, all other religious groups have a median age that is older than the global median.

"Christians have a median age of 30, followed by members of other religions (32), adherents of folk or traditional religions (33), the religiously unaffiliated (34) and Buddhists (34). Jews have the highest median age (36), more than a dozen years older than the youngest group, Muslims.”

Worldwide, the "unaffiliated" category was 16% - the same as the percentage who reported as being Catholic. In the Pew US survey released a few months earlier, the fastest growing "religious" group in America was made up of people with no religion at all. That survey said that 1/5 Americans is not affiliated with any religion, and the number of these Americans has grown by 25% in the past five years.

So, all over, Christians are aging, the Hindus and Muslims are on the younger end, and, in the US and elsewhere in the "developed world," the numbers of unaffiliated are growing rapidly.

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I'm fine with all faiths growing. I know that seems odd to say but to me we're better off in a world where faith is alive and well even if not everyone is part of the same.[/quote]

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