Time already tells,
we have reached high mark of secularization and witness tide turning back.
Kaufmann addressed all those points of National Geographic article and more
"As Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. Thats a fertility gap of 41 per cent. Given that about 80 per cent of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections."
Yes, from secular point of view you can argue, that non-believers can through apostacy of believers postpone their demographic demise by cannibalizing existing denominations. As has happened in eastern Europe during communism. But you wont solve fundamental problem of self replacement through fertility and you also lack any sort of fail safe (if we discount state terror) to stop returning individuals to their respective faiths.
Did I just catch you writing about "faith"?
we have reached high mark of secularization and witness tide turning back.
Kaufmann addressed all those points of National Geographic article and more
"As Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. Thats a fertility gap of 41 per cent. Given that about 80 per cent of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections."
Yes, from secular point of view you can argue, that non-believers can through apostacy of believers postpone their demographic demise by cannibalizing existing denominations. As has happened in eastern Europe during communism. But you wont solve fundamental problem of self replacement through fertility and you also lack any sort of fail safe (if we discount state terror) to stop returning individuals to their respective faiths.
Time will tell if we became extinct or not, we have to have faith that the people on the planet will overpass his diferences and work together for the species.
Did I just catch you writing about "faith"?