Originally Posted by
RuhlFreak55
it is surely losing it's influence.....it would be AWESOME if it would just die out entirely
Peace be unto you.
Christianity is not dying out at all:
The growth rate of Christianity, according to the U.S. Center for World Mission, is very close to the growth rate of the world's population. The percentage of Christians in the world has remained almost constant for decades.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/growth_isl_chr.htm
These things go in cycles. The counter-culture revolution of the 60s and 70s has died out; had it continued, sure Christianity would have been seriously hurt. But when one generation becomes irreligious, then the next generation or the one after them becomes more religious. It is cyclical. For example, the Muslims were becoming less religious just one or two generations ago, adopting Arab or Turk nationalism, secularism, socialism, etc over religion. Women were throwing off their hijabs (headscarves) and modest coverings. Yet today there is a resurgence, and the young generation has returned to Islam with a great force. Now the young women are putting on the hijabs against their parents' wishes, and Islam and Pan-Islamism have replaced nationalism, secularism, socialism, etc in the hearts and minds of the Muslim masses. As God says: He has no need for any one generation; if one generation abandons God, then God will replace it with a generation that is better than it.
The truth is that the younger generations generally react and go to the opposite of what their older generations did. So it becomes a cyclical pattern. Living in the sixties and seventies, one would have thought that Christianity would be gone by now, yet it is as strong as ever in America, thanks to the conservative surge that followed the liberal wave.
In the Care of the Lord,
-Saladin.
