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derrida
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Date: February 20, 2011 02:44PM
Thanks cecelia. So declining growth rates is the story. I'd rather see negative growth, but their growth over the same period is behind that of some other religious groups and just a little, maybe a percentage point, aheaed of the population growth of the US. Not comforting to see US conversion rates jumping 32,000 from 2004 to 2006.
Religion in general is losing ground in Western societies. But that seems long term to me. I want my family out now! Of course. That the church's growth is slowing doesn't fill me with confidence that it will implode, die in a wimper, or a bang anytime soon--or in my lifetime, which hopefully will be another forty years or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate