Saturday 20 February 2010

The numbers game

"Outside Europe, numbers of Christians are rising at a phenomenal pace.
But in the West, they are falling."
- Diarmaid MacCulloch - A History of Christianity, BBC2


Comparative birthrates:

France - 12.2

UK - 12.0 
Canada 10.3


Democratic Republic of Congo - 49.6
Liberia - 49.6
Uganda - 46.6
Zambia - 39.3


New Atheism - like King Canute buying a canoe.  And telling himself how much cleverer he is than the tide.


(Birthrates per 1,000 people - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rate)

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