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Population control not needed Comments 0

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Contrary to the fear mongering of the population alarmists, the world isn’t heading for a demographic catastrophe. The latest data on world population from the U.N. Population Division reveals a number of trends that seem to indicate otherwise. The following is PRI’s brief overview of some of the findings from the recently released 2015 Revision Read more

Tags: demography, population, Population Control
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NZ bucks religiosity trend Comments 1

Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

New Zealand is one of only three countries in which religiosity is predicted to decline between now and 2050. The other two are France and the Netherlands. These are some of the predictions made by Washington-based think-tank, Pew Research Centre, in a recently published report. The report predicted that by 2050 In the Asia Pacific Read more

• Religious affiliation fades as New Zealand bucks trend
• Islam's appeal grows worldwide

Tags: Atheism, Christian religion, demography, Secularism, Statistics, unbelief
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The curse of small families Comments 0

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

We all know what’s coming. Everywhere in the developed world, populations are greying. The media are full of stories about the surge in the numbers of the elderly within the next 20 years, while governments have been pushing the age of retirement entitlements upward. Most of the spotlight has been on the new greybeards themselves—the Read more

Tags: Aging, baby boomers, demography, families, Family, fertility rates, population
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  • Richard Duthie Kieran, I really have to question that Christianity is "the greatest message in the world". Maybe the reason the delivery gets messed up is because it just isn't the greatest message in the world. Far from it, because that assumes we were born sick and with any considered, rational analysis done, it...

    The coming religion recession ·  July 6, 2020

  • Kieran I once read a line that makes more and more sense as years go buy. I can really empathise with Richard's journey. :"Christianity has the greatest message in the world but we really mess it up in getting it across." We create a huge theology out of the Genesis story without realising that evolution...

    The coming religion recession ·  July 6, 2020

  • Richard Duthie Thank you Kieran for your invitation. Rather than respond with anything, as is possible to do, I wanted to wait to see if anything said yes to me. And it might well not have. But it did. A bit after midnight last night I was struck with this one sentence and immediately wrote it down in case it...

    The coming religion recession ·  July 5, 2020

  • Sue Sallam The depiction of Jesus as black is almost as bad as depicting him as blond and blue eyed. As we don’t know what Jesus looked like, we should follow the genetic attributes of those who lived in the area at the time. Jesus’s earth parents were both Jewish. Thus a depiction of a non white Jesus...

    Black Jesus painting to go in one of UK’s oldest cathedrals ·  July 3, 2020

  • Kieran Many in the coming religious recession will be among the older generation not facing the risk of crowds. The time has come to hear the words of Pope Francis to listen to the voice of the younger generation and as I read the words of someone such as Richard Duthie who describes himself as "ex...

    The coming religion recession ·  July 1, 2020

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