@Abraham said:
Its a religion of salvation that promotes love above all else. It doesn't call for anybody to be killed, or tortured, or segregated like other religions. It calls for us to love one another and make peace. Gee what a terrible burden on the world that must be!
That may be it's current intent, just a shame it's not implemented that way by many believers around the world.
Homosexuality is still condemned by many. In Uganda they very nearly passed laws to allow the killing of homosexuals, it's only life in prison now. All due to their Christian faith.
In the Central African Republic, Christian militias are busily killing Muslims.
It's not just Christianity of course, there's certainly problems and issues with other religions. I would say more so in Islam than in any other. It will take the moderates to start acknowledging the misuse, the misinterpretation maybe of their beliefs, for any progress to be made to put a stop to issues that society, on the whole, does not want.
@Abraham said:
You may not know it, but Christianity it the worlds largest non-government provider of education, healthcare, charity, and social services. It has also had more positive impact on mankind than any other institution throughout human history.
Debatable certainly, I would say Democracy has had the more positive impact.
@Abraham said:
Thankfully you are both talking out of your backsides with regards to it dying however. Had either of you bothered to do any basic research you would see that Christianity is still growing across the world, while its predicted that atheism will shrink as a proportion of the world's population over the coming decades.
Yep religiosity around the world is still growing in proportion to population rises. The highly religious countries are having more kids than the less religious. The non-religious are (depending on which survey you go to), 3rd or 4th after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. However, in the West it's a different story, here, European countries and in the US, non-belief is growing rapidly. This is happening for a few reasons. Access to better education, better medical, more rights for women etc.
It's been seen in Iran, during the 80s they probably had the highest fertility rate, but that has decreased rapidly and that has been chalked up to the women getting more educated and being allowed more rights there. Many young people becoming more Westernized.
It will eventually happen elsewhere in other high birth rate, high religious countries.
Whether humans will eventually have no religion though, I'm not too sure. Humans love the idea of the transcendent and numinous.