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Hate to be that goy, but actually the conservative whites are gaining in numbers. They have more children than liberal faggots, they are generally healthier, and have higher reported life satisfaction (urban/rural).
https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448
Although this is not as nonsense as some of the people around here will have you believe, the latest birthrate trends are actually indicating a Europe with around 15-25 % Islamic population towards the end of the 2050. The hidden demographic is actually fundamentalist/traditionalist Christians (they are not as obvious because they are nearly all white and have few distinguishing features) who are breeding like crazy and becoming much more equipped at putting up a defense against secular society and increasing their children's retention rates within that religion. Coupled with the decline in "mainstream" lukewarm Christianity it creates a very deceptive trend line when looking at the religious adherence in Europe. While Christianity may be trending down in a lot of polls what it does not show is that the fundamentalists/traditionalists are growing rapidly within that declining numbers and are set to reverse that decline in 30-40 years.
Eric Kaufmanns "Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth" is a great book at explaining the demographic influence within society such as the Ultra-Orthodoxs rise and Fundamentalist Protestantisms future.
If you're interested in the topic check out the book by the British political scientist Eric Kaufman "Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?"
He explains that demographically social conservatives and religious fundamentalist in countries around the world are quickly beginning to dominate due to their large population expanses. The Orthodox Haredim will soon outnumber the Reformed Jews in Israel, evangelical Christians are overtaking Anglicans, the Amish population is doubling every 20 years, Hutterites are exploding in population, Mormon populations are growing very fast as well as is the Quiverfull movement.
If you combine high birth rates with very low rates of people leaving these extreme forms of religion, then you can see how it's religious moderates who are being destroyed, not extremist.
Interview with Eric Kaufmann, Author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
>Question: This trend of “quiverfull” Christian families and large Catholic families (to name a couple) has been around for a while… And yet, the percentages of non-religious people keep increasing according to recent polls. Does that contradict your thesis?
>Answer: No. The composition of a population is always a product of the relative pace of secularisation and religious growth. I use the analogy of a treadmill. Seculars are running on a treadmill that is tilting up and moving against them because of their low fertility and immigration. The religious — notably fundamentalists — are standing still or walking backward, but their treadmill is pushing them forward and tilting downhill. So in Europe in the late twentieth century, seculars were running fast enough to overcome their demographic disadvantage and overtook the faithful. But today, secularism is slowing down outside England and Catholic Europe, and is facing a more difficult incline from the treadmill of demography. London is a good example: it is more religious now than 20 years ago despite secularisation, simply because of religious immigration and fertility.**
Here are some interviews with the author...
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Battle of the Babies - A new book argues that liberal secularism and high birth rates are fuelling a revival of religious fundamentalism. Caspar Melville speaks to its author Eric Kaufmann
check out Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?. Lecture doesn't touch on all the numbers you want, but he take a good look at the issue from a number of angles. (not just conversion rates, but disparity in birth rate among various religious groups)
His book of the same title will probably have the numbers you're looking for.
Yes, it absolutely does.
ITT: lots of atheists saying "it's not because we're atheists, it's because we're so smart and educated!"
Another excellent source summarizing the many, many studies showing atheism is causative of lower birth rates is "Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth" by Eric Kaufmann.
(For more on this topic, come check out /r/natalism.)
It's a reference to "revenge of the cradle" a plan put in place by Catholics in Quebec to out birth other groups in Canada as a way to shift politics through demographics. Considering most demographic studies are showing that religious radicals of every stripe are having more children than secular folks, that phrase might strike fear into your average, atheist leftist in Canada.
Great book on the topic....
https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448
>Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists. And what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share of the population: in fact, the more religious people are, the more children they have. The cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the West. Not only will the religious eventually triumph over the non-religious, but it is those who are the most extreme in their beliefs who have the largest families.
>Within Judaism, the Ultra-Orthodox may achieve majority status over their liberal counterparts by mid-century. Islamist Muslims have won the culture war in much of the Muslim world, and their success provides a glimpse of what awaits the Christian West and Israel. Based on a wealth of demographic research, considering questions of multiculturalism and terrorism, Kaufmann examines the implications of the decline in liberal secularism as religious conservatism rises - and what this means for the future of western modernity.
http://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1JM02ODVBPXHE&colid=URIGRGJ3G3O4
It is indeed so. I think that atheism today is doomed, because atheists have too few children, which gives them strong evolutionary disadvantage. There's a good book about it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448
> If a woman doesn't want to gestate a fetus, that's her business and her business, period...
Depends on how far along the child is. At some point, its no longer simply a zygote. At some point, the brain has formed, and its now a human being. At that point, I don't agree with abortion.
> This shouldn't even be a discussion. It's a woman's personal medical decision, and no one else's.
Yes, it should, for yet another reason that I didn't get into, and that's the fact that the religious people are "winning". What I mean by that, is that they're having more babies than us. And not by any small amount either. Too many western civilizations are below replacement birth rate, while Muslim and Christian communities are having babies left and right.
The problem with that, is that it won't take too many generations before us secularists are outnumbered. Significantly. And then its just a matter of time until we go away... either bred out completely, or we're persecuted so severely that we just "give in". Don't believe that? Read this - https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448
So whether secular women (and men for that matter) like it or not, we need to be having babies, at at least the same rate as the religious.
A big problem I see with a lot of atheists is they believe they're not at war with religious extremism. Well you are, because they're at war with you, whether you like it or not.
It would be a hell of a thing to see 5000 years of Western civilization turn to shit because women got "liberated" and then sat around with a "Now what?" attitude. Like it or not, women exist to create new humans. Men exist to help create new humans. That's just the way it is. It might be unfair, it might not be politically correct, but that's the reality of our situation.