In addition to fertility rates and age distributions, religious switching is likely to play a role in the growth of religious groups. But conversion patterns are complex and varied. In some countries, it is fairly common for adults to leave their childhood religion and switch to another faith. In others, changes in religious identity are rare, legally cumbersome or even illegal.

The Pew Research Center projections attempt to incorporate patterns in religious switching in 70 countries where surveys provide information on the number of people who say they no longer belong to the religious group in which they were raised. In the projection model, all directions of switching are possible, and they may be partially offsetting. In the United States, for example, surveys find that some people who were raised with no religious affiliation have switched to become Christians, while some who grew up as Christians have switched to become unaffiliated. These types of patterns are projected to continue as future generations come of age. (For more details on how and where switching was modeled, see the Methodology. For alternative growth scenarios involving either switching in additional countries or no switching at all, see Chapter 1.)


Over the coming decades, Christians are expected to experience the largest net losses from switching. Globally, about 40 million people are projected to switch into Christianity, while 106 million are projected to leave, with most joining the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated. (See chart above.)

All told, the unaffiliated are expected to add 97 million people and lose 36 million via switching, for a net gain of 61 million by 2050. Modest net gains through switching also are expected for Muslims (3 million), adherents of folk religions (3 million) and members of other religions (2 million). Jews are expected to experience a net loss of about 300,000 people due to switching, while Buddhists are expected to lose nearly 3 million.


http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/

Projected Cumulative Change Due To Religious Switching

The research may be bias because the rate people are discovering the weird ideas of religion is alarming. Rise in Internet usage and globalization is pushing the idea of regional religious believes to oblivion. People are becoming aware that there is no sky camera watching over their daily dealing.


Am still reasoning why those people raised without any religious affiliation do rejoin the hoax concept of a creator god in such a high rate in the face of mountains of evidence pointing to the opposite.

Is absurd that in our generation, people will actually come in contact with fact and then follow illusion.

menesheh:
The research may be bias because the rate people are discovering the weird ideas of religion is alarming. Rise in Internet usage and globalization is pushing the idea of regional religious believes to oblivion. People are becoming aware that there is no sky camera watching over their daily dealing.


Am still reasoning why the figure where people raised without any religious affiliation will rejoin the hoax concept of a creator god in such a high rate in the face of mountains of evidence pointing to the opposite.

Is absurd that in our generation, people will actually come in contact with fact and then follow illusion.

You just keep telling yourself that.

RagnarLodbrok:


You just keep telling yourself that.

Lolz guy,if you know what you have downloaded into your brain ,you would be shocked,you read alot of trash,but one thing i like about you is that u studios.again what u think.you know is all but deception,can deception itself know that he/she is deception,most times yes,at times no to the lost sheeps
See ya at the other side

pneumaticos:


Lolz guy,if you know what you have downloaded into your brain ,you would be shocked,you read alot of trash,but one thing i like about you is that u studios.again what u think.you know is all but deception,can deception itself know that he/she is deception,most times yes,at times no to the lost sheeps
See ya at the other side

If "deception can't know itself", then how do you know you're not the one who's been deceived?

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”