"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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