(CNN)If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people. Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. The Pew study predicts Christians will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population.This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim. And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers. Story highlights
Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study
Study collected data from 234 countries and territories; predicts fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk religions and atheists
(CNN)If tech futurists are to be believed, by the year 2050, robots will do many of our errands and drive our cars. If a new study on religious trends is to be believed, many of those robot-controlled cars will stop and park at mosques and churches.

Yes, despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity.

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Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.

Christianity is expected to grow, too, but not at Islam's explosive rate. The Pew study predicts Christians will increase from 2.17 billion to 2.92 billion, composing more than 31% of the world's population.

This means that by 2050, more than 6 out of 10 people on Earth will be Christian or Muslim. And, for perhaps the first time in history, Islam and Christianity would boast roughly equal numbers.


Looking even farther into the future, Islam's population could surpass Christianity by 2100, Pew says, despite Christians' six-century head start. (It's possible that Muslims outnumbered Christians some time in the past, perhaps during the Black Plague that decimated Europe. But scholars aren't certain.)

Based in Washington, Pew is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that regularly produces sweeping surveys of this kind without taking public policy positions. Six years in the making, its study collected data from 234 countries and territories to predict the fate of five major faiths -- Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam -- as well as folk religions and the religiously unaffiliated, including atheists.

The study, which Pew says is the first of its kind, bases its projections on the age of populations, fertility and mortality rates, as well as migration and conversion patterns. Simply put, Muslims are having larger families, retaining more members (conversions are illegal in some Muslim nations) and are younger than adherents of other faiths. More than 1 in 3 Muslims is younger than 15.

But religious trends have never been measured on the study's vast scale, Pew says, so a few cautions are in order.

First, the population projections are based on current data and assumptions about demographic trends. For example, Muslim women have an average of three children, the highest of any religious group. In the future, if education and employment rates rise, those numbers could change.

Second, nobody at Pew has a crystal ball, so events like cataclysmic wars, rampaging diseases, natural disasters and economic meltdowns could throw the numbers off.

But it's clear from the 245-page report that Pew and the demographic experts they consulted did their homework, so the study is worth taking seriously. With that in mind, here are some of the study's top findings about what the world will look like -- at least, faith-wise -- in 2050.

-- Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people will increase in the United States (from 16% to 26%) but decline as a share of the total worldwide population.

-- Also in the United States, Christians will drop from 78% to 66% of population. Muslims will surpass Jews as the largest non-Christian religion in the U.S.

-- Sub-Saharan African will be home to 40% of the Christian population and Nigeria have more Christians than any other country except for the United States and Brazil.

-- India will have the largest Muslim population in the world, passing Indonesia, but Hindus will retain a majority.

-- More than 10% of Europeans will be Muslim, while the number of Christians in Europe will drop by 100 million.

-- Hinduism (1.4 billion adherents) and Judaism (16 million) will increase, while Buddhists will be about the same size as in 2010 (5.2 million).

-- In the coming decades, 106 million people are projected to leave Christianity. (46 million will convert to Christianity, offsetting the losses a little.)

-- The number of countries with Christian majorities will drop to 151, as Christians are projected to decrease in Australia, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Macedonia and the United Kingdom.

-- Muslims are expected to make up more than 50% of the population in 51 countries, including the Republic of Macedonia and Nigeria.
The expected growth of Islam around the world is perhaps the most striking finding in the recent Pew Research Center report projecting the future of religious groups. Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2010 and 2050 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group. While the world’s population is projected to grow 35% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 73% – from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion in 2050. In 2010, Muslims made up 23.2% of the global population. Four decades later, they are expected to make up about three-in-ten of the world’s people (29.7%).By 2050, Muslims will be nearly as numerous as Christians, who are projected to remain the world’s largest religious group at 31.4% of the global population. The main reasons for Islam’s growth ultimately involve simple demographics. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study. Each Muslim woman has an average of 3.1 children, significantly above the next-highest group (Christians at 2.7) and the average of all non-Muslims (2.3). In all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility.The growth of the Muslim population also is helped by the fact that Muslims have the youngest median age (23 in 2010) of all major religious groups, seven years younger than the median age of non-Muslims (30). A larger share of Muslims will soon be at the point in their lives when people begin having children. This, combined with high fertility rates, will accelerate Muslim population growth.More than a third of Muslims are concentrated in Africa and the Middle East, regions that are projected to have the biggest population increases. But even within these high-growth regions – as well as others – Muslims are projected to grow faster than members of other groups. For example, Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa, on average, are younger and have higher fertility than the overall population of the region. In fact, Muslims are expected to grow as a percentage of every region except Latin America and the Caribbean, where relatively few Muslims live. Muslim and Non-Muslim Median AgeThe same dynamics hold true in many countries where Muslims live in large numbers alongside other religious groups. For example, India’s number of Muslims is growing at a faster rate than the country’s majority Hindu population, and is projected to rise from 14.4% of India’s 2010 population to 18.4% (or 311 million people) in 2050. And while there were roughly equal numbers of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria as of 2010, Muslims have higher fertility there and are expected to grow to a solid majority of Nigeria’s population (58.5%) in 2050.

Meanwhile, religious switching, which is expected to hinder the growth of some other religious groups, is not expected to have a negative net impact on Muslims. By contrast, between 2010 and 2050, Christianity is projected to have a net loss of more than 60 million adherents worldwide through religious switching.

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More terrorists
credits to polygamy
one man marrying 3wives giving birth to 10 children
#smh

Lol... The end result of being idle... Well, your research has made me understand what my Bible tells me Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many who go
in by it. Because narrow is the gate
and difficult is the way which leads to life,
and there are few who find it.

dddrexjr:
More terrorists
credits to polygamy
one man marrying 3wives giving birth to 10 children
#smh

idjiot how many percentage are polygamous? moreover polygamy contributes little to population increase.

some people will get heart attack from this news.
Ya Allah also increase us in Quality

Emmydo360:
Lol... The end result of being idle... Well, your research has made me understand what my Bible tells me Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many who go
in by it. Because narrow is the gate
and difficult is the way which leads to life,
and there are few who find it.

48:28
Yusuf Ali
It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion: and enough is Allah for a Witness.

The prophet (saw) said:
"Indeed Allah gathered up the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west; and indeed the dominion of my Ummah will reach what was what was gathered up for me from it." [Related by Muslim (8/171), Abu Dawud (no. 4252) and others, from Thawban radhiallahu 'anhu]

And he also said:
"This affair will reach what is reached by the night and the day; and Allah will not leave a dwelling of brick, nor fur, except that Allah will cause this Din to enter it - bringing honour or humiliation. Honour which Allah gives to Islam and humiliation which Allah will give to disbelief." [Sahih: Related by Ahmad (4/103), Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (no. 1631) and others. Shaykh Al­-Albani authenticated it in Tahdhirus­-Sajid (p. 118)]

dddrexjr:
More terrorists
credits to polygamy
one man marrying 3wives giving birth to 10 children
#smh

"It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions, no matter how much the disbelievers detest it." [Al-Qur'an 61:9]

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crusadistic:
idjiot how many percentage are polygamous? moreover polygamy contributes little to population increase.

Hey bro.. Are you really listening to yourself? Do you know what impact if polygamous family impacting to especially the northern Nigerians..? If you r not going to marry up to 4 wives and devoice about two of three ( about 6-7 wives all together) then you ain't practicing what your religion tells you... I am a Christian and I am proud to let the world know.. As a Christian, I am bound to face persecution ( so my Bible tells me, the early Christians faced it and it's even happening in the middle east) I don't care about population.. The Bible says FOR ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN!!

Emmydo360:


Hey bro.. Are you really listening to yourself? Do you know what impact if polygamous family impacting to especially the northern Nigerians..? If you r not going to marry up to 4 wives and devoice about two of three ( about 6-7 wives all together) then you ain't practicing what your religion tells you... I am a Christian and I am proud to let the world know.. As a Christian, I am bound to face persecution ( so my Bible tells me, the early Christians faced it and it's even happening in the middle east) I don't care about population.. The Bible says FOR ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN!!

You are shameless, claiming persecution in the eyes of muslims? Please wear a turban and go to the airport. And by the way, islam is the only religion that restricts marriage to one and maximum of four under conditions. Please tell me where jesus told you to marry one wife? You're not a christian mate, you're a saulian, a jewish chipolata. Do you even know why polygamy was allowed in islam? Smh

4:3
Yusuf Ali
If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice.

Whenever a christian like you speaks, the stench of ignorance can be detected from a mile away

This thread will cause many sleepless night

85% of muslims re hypocrites!

Uyi168:
85% of muslims re hypocrites!

DravenCreighton:


You are shameless, claiming persecution in the eyes of muslims? Please wear a turban and go to the airport. And by the way, islam is the only religion that restricts marriage to one and maximum of four under conditions. PLEASE TELL ME WHERE JESUS TOLD YOU TO MARRY ONE WIFE? You're not a christian mate, you're a saulian, a jewish chipolata. Do you even know why polygamy was allowed in islam? Smh

4:3
Yusuf Ali
If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice.

Whenever a christian like you speaks, the stench of ignorance can be detected from a mile away

MATTHEW
19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.


Even with his doctrine, Jesus Christ never had a woman for a wife... Now, who is deceiving who??

Emmydo360:


MATTHEW
19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.


Even with his doctrine, Jesus Christ never had a woman for a wife... Now, who is deceiving who??

Read between the lines!! Ignorance!

Broadly, Islam has five categories of Do's and Dont's.

(i) 'Farz' i.e compulsory

(ii) 'Mustahab' i.e recommended or encouraged

(iii) 'Mubah' i.e permissible

(iv) 'Makruh' i.e 'not recommended' or discouraged

(v) 'Haram' i.e prohibited or forbidden

Polygyny falls in the middle category of things that are permissible. It cannot be said that a Muslim who has two, three or four wives is a better Muslim as compared to a Muslim who has only one wife.

Emmydo360:


MATTHEW
19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.


Even with his doctrine, Jesus Christ never had a woman for a wife... Now, who is deceiving who??

where did he say marry only one wife there .He only talked against divorce under any condition which is unreasonable.

where dem Ifeann/parisbookaddict ODEMOO and Co? hope they haven't committed suicide yet o

crusadistic:
where did he say marry only one wife there .He only talked against divorce under any condition which is unreasonable.

19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to HIS WIFE: and they TWINE shall be ONE FLESH?
19:6 Wherefore THE ARE NO MORE TWINE, but ONE FLESH. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

his wife... Not his wives
Twine. Meaning two bodies... Formed as one flesh

I can give u several imams and Islamic schoolers who have more than one wife.. But pls, can you show me one pastor or and devoted Christian who has more than one wife.

I have seen what polygamous marriage has caused to many homes.. To cut the story short, I don't see it ideal to get more than one wife... Nature has proven it, Religious beliefs has approved it(Adam and eve). My Bible Concord to it(Matthew 19 vs 5).

Emmydo360:


19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to HIS WIFE: and they TWINE shall be ONE FLESH?
19:6 Wherefore THE ARE NO MORE TWINE, but ONE FLESH. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

his wife... Not his wives
Twine. Meaning two bodies... Formed as one flesh

I can give u several imams and Islamic schoolers who have more than one wife.. But pls, can you show me one pastor or and devoted Christian who has more than one wife.

I have seen what polygamous marriage has caused to many homes.. To cut the story short, I don't see it ideal to get more than one wife... Nature has proven it, Religious beliefs has approved it(Adam and eve). My Bible Concord to it(Matthew 19 vs 5).

i dont need to show you anything,as if the average xtian man doesnt cheat which one is better? that passage is describing the marriage process or you don't understand simple English,show me where he said marry only one wife,only Islam says marry one thuo polygamy can be allowed under certain conditions; "If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly
with the orphans, Marry women of your choice,
Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall
not be able to deal justly (with them), then only
one"(Qur'an 4:3)
where did you see you must marry more than one wife?it provides a far more realistic/practical approach to life moreover Muslim families are the most stable compared to the west that even bans polygamy.

Emmydo360:


19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to HIS WIFE: and they TWINE shall be ONE FLESH?
19:6 Wherefore THE ARE NO MORE TWINE, but ONE FLESH. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

his wife... Not his wives
Twine. Meaning two bodies... Formed as one flesh

I can give u several imams and Islamic schoolers who have more than one wife.. But pls, can you show me one pastor or and devoted Christian who has more than one wife.

I have seen what polygamous marriage has caused to many homes.. To cut the story short, I don't see it ideal to get more than one wife... Nature has proven it, Religious beliefs has approved it(Adam and eve). My Bible Concord to it(Matthew 19 vs 5).

Soo, when a man marries a woman they become one flesh. I still don't see anything about monogamy here.

Islam will be the largest religion in the world by 2100

Those with no religion could outnumber Christians in the UK towards the end of the century

Will the world get more peaceful with this growth or are going to witness more killing in the name of religion? ?

AroOkigbo:
Will the world get more peaceful with this growth or are going to witness more killing in the name of religion? ?

Impossible to predict.

DravenCreighton:


Impossible to predict.

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Interesting. ..yet it's possible to predict all you have in the original post.
You and I know the trend so far.
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The truth hurts...lol

AroOkigbo:

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Interesting. ..yet it's possible to predict all you have in the original post.
You and I know the trend so far.
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The truth hurts...lol

No, a hundred years ago, the christians were busy burning children and wiping out villages in the name of god, no one would have predicted they'll become this organized religion with Loose morals.

Truth hurts indeed.

Like I said, impossible to predict.

DravenCreighton:


No, a hundred years ago, the christians were busy burning children and wiping out villages in the name of god, no one would have predicted they'll become this organized religion with Loose morals.

Truth hurts indeed.

Like I said, impossible to predict.

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In likewise manner, would you be able to compare, in fairness, muslims of a hundred years ago and muslims now??

@OP. DravenCreighton
I can see u are very Happy with what u posted here.
Well, I will tell u not to rejoice bcs it does not always work out like that.

No one can actually predict tomorrow precisely!!!

The statstists are just trying base on the facts at hand but cannot predict the way events will unfold in the next 50yrs .

Besides, who has spoken and it came to pass when God has not commanded it?


Just as it is wrong for me to use the rate of conversion to Christianity in my locality to rate Christian growth so it is for a group of people to do the same base on the the information and data bcs the only constant thing in life is change.

Remember presently Christianity is still leading, so dwell with that fact for now and let's wait for that 50 or 100yrs to come then we can do the rating.

Ah, but there so many ignorant people here. Don't you realize that if what the Op said does not happen, it will make Jesus and Biblical prophecies fraud?
Paul talking to Thimoty says, at the last days, perious times shall come. Many shall FALL AWAY. What does that tell u. Many shall leave the Lord. Believe it or not. When the anti-christ will rule this world, only a fraction of people shall oppose him, because he will have the world on his side.
Imagine me having a sleepless night because the Bible is getting fulfilled in my time. No sir, this tells me that I have not believed in a lie. What prophecies did Mohammed prophecy? How many of them are getting fulfilled? See the spirit of the anti-christ at work and all you r bothered abt is how many christians and Muslims are in the world. We don't go by number. We r not competing over anything. Beside, didn't the Muslim say Jehovah and allah are the same? So why are they happy that they r taking over the world?
And satan said to God "I said shall ascend and sit on the mount, in the side of the north, in the mist of the congregation and be worshipped as God". Satan has his religion. Just check out their activities all over the world. You know a tree by its friuts. The world will have plenty fun by the time Islam takes over. Sorry for u.
When they take overphysicall, by killing, theyshd also fight to take over spiritually. Oh yea, I forgot. They'll be too busy with the virgins.

Anas09:
Ah, but there so many ignorant people here. Don't you realize that if what the Op said does not happen, it will make Jesus and Biblical prophecies fraud?
Paul talking to Thimoty says, at the last days, perious times shall come. Many shall FALL AWAY. What does that tell u. Many shall leave the Lord. Believe it or not. When the anti-christ will rule this world, only a fraction of people shall oppose him, because he will have the world on his side.
Imagine me having a sleepless night because the Bible is getting fulfilled in my time. No sir, this tells me that I have not believed in a lie. What prophecies did Mohammed prophecy? How many of them are getting fulfilled? See the spirit of the anti-christ at work and all you r bothered abt is how many christians and Muslims are in the world. We don't go by number. We r not competing over anything. Beside, didn't the Muslim say Jehovah and allah are the same? So why are they happy that they r taking over the world?
And satan said to God "I said shall ascend and sit on the mount, in the side of the north, in the mist of the congregation and be worshipped as God". Satan has his religion. Just check out their activities all over the world. You know a tree by its friuts. The world will have plenty fun by the time Islam takes over. Sorry for u.
When they take overphysicall, by killing, theyshd also fight to take over spiritually. Oh yea, I forgot. They'll be too busy with the virgins.

its this how you will defends xtianity's failures because you think its the end of days that most probably may not happen another 2000 yrs you should continue folding your hands and do nothing instead wasting your efforts on Islam.