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Essay: An atheist trying to stop Christianity (view source)
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{{cquote|The report estimates about 80,000 new [[Christianity|Christians]] every day, 79,000 new [[Islam|Muslims]] every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the [[Western World|West]], while religion is thriving in the Global South, where [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]] is exploding."<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref>}}
{{cquote|The report estimates about 80,000 new [[Christianity|Christians]] every day, 79,000 new [[Islam|Muslims]] every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the [[Western World|West]], while religion is thriving in the Global South, where [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]] is exploding."<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref>}}
[[File:Foxhole.jpg|thumb|right|195px|Reverend William T. Cummings is famous for declaring ''"[[There Are No Atheists in Foxholes|There are no atheists in foxholes]]''.<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>]]
[[File:Foxhole.jpg|thumb|right|195px|Reverend William T. Cummings is famous for declaring ''"[[There Are No Atheists in Foxholes|There are no atheists in foxholes]]''.<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>]]
On December 23, 2012, Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London wrote:
{{cquote|I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.
On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population... In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.
<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97-of-worlds-population-growth-is.html 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious], Tuesday, April 30, 2013</ref>}}
In the Western World, the [[atheist movement]] is deeply divided and recently internet atheism has been in decline (see: [[Essay: Atheism: A house divided and in global decline|Atheism: A house divided and in global decline]] and [[Internet atheism|Decline of internet atheism]]).
In the Western World, the [[atheist movement]] is deeply divided and recently internet atheism has been in decline (see: [[Essay: Atheism: A house divided and in global decline|Atheism: A house divided and in global decline]] and [[Internet atheism|Decline of internet atheism]]).