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Line 159: − − == Global resurgence of religion == − − ''See also:'' [[Desecularization]] and [[Global atheism]] and [[Global atheism]] and [[Atheism and marriage]] and [[Atheist marriages]] − [[File:Watoto Childrens Choir picture.jpg|thumbnail|left|190px|Watoto Children's Choir, [[Uganda]]. − <br /> − <br /> − In 2005, there were four times as many non-Western World Christians as there were [[Western World]] Christians.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077 Is Christianity taking over the planet?]</ref> See: [[Global Christianity]] ]] − 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>}} − − Michael Blume, a researcher at the University of Jena in Germany, wrote "Most societies or communities that have espoused atheistic beliefs have not survived more than a century."<ref>[http://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/biology-of-religion/2011-01-06/atheists-a-dying-breed-as-nature-favours-faithful-sunday-times-jan-02-2011-jonathan-leake-full-draft-version Atheist: A dying breed as nature favours faithful]</ref> Blume also indicated concerning concerning his research on this matter: "What I found was the complete lack of a single case of a secular population, community or movement that would just manage to retain replacement level."<ref>[http://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/biology-of-religion/2011-01-06/atheists-a-dying-breed-as-nature-favours-faithful-sunday-times-jan-02-2011-jonathan-leake-full-draft-version Atheist: A dying breed as nature favours faithful]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and sexuality]] − − In 2008, Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, in his monograph entitled ''Wars of Ideas and the War of Ideas'', "offers a brief examination of four common types of wars of ideas..."<ref name=IRSN2008>{{cite web |publisher=International Relations and Security Network |url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=90824 |title=Abstract of Wars of Ideas and the War of Ideas }}</ref> While he believes that a sound understanding the wars of ideas can inform strategy, Echevarria "concludes that physical events, whether designed or incidental, are in some respects more important to the course and outcome of a war of ideas than the ideas themselves."<ref name=Echevarriawarsideas> − {{cite news − |author=Antulio Joseph Echevarria − |publisher=Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College (SSI) − |date=June 2008 − |ISBN=1-58487-359-0 − |series=SSI Monographs − |location=Carlisle, United States − |pages=63 − |title=Wars of Ideas and the War of Ideas − |url=http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/90824/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/64dda047-4d8b-4163-8479-79b9eee5a655/en/Wars_Ideas.pdf − |format=PDF − }}</ref> − <ref name=IRSN2008 /> Kaufmann argues that fertility rate differences over time will have a stronger effect on the atheism/agnosticism vs. Christianity ideological struggle than evangelism will in West and that immigration of religious immigrants will also have a strong effect.<ref> − *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century] − *[Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?], Video - Lecture by [[Eric Kaufmann]] − *[http://library.fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Fora-TV - Australia Lecture - Eric Kaufmann- Shall the religious inherit the earth]</ref>
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In their 2010 journal article entitled, ''Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043'' published in the ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'', Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon wrote that the "prevailing view ...envisions the continued growth of “strong religion” (Stark and Iannaccone 1994a)."<ref>[http://www.sneps.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/jssr_15101.pdf ''Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043''], ''Journal for the Sientific Study of Religion'', vol. 49, no. 2 (June) 2010, Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon,</ref> See also: [[Baylor University researchers on American Christianity]]
In their 2010 journal article entitled, ''Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043'' published in the ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'', Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon wrote that the "prevailing view ...envisions the continued growth of “strong religion” (Stark and Iannaccone 1994a)."<ref>[http://www.sneps.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/jssr_15101.pdf ''Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043''], ''Journal for the Sientific Study of Religion'', vol. 49, no. 2 (June) 2010, Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon,</ref> See also: [[Baylor University researchers on American Christianity]]
== Morale of Christendom vs. the morale of the atheist movement ==
== Morale of Christendom vs. the morale of the atheist movement ==