Evangelical Baby Boom? Demographics and Religious Politics

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth

Can a seemingly simple shift in demographics reshape the political and religious landscape of a nation? Eric Kaufmann, author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, attributes conservative religious movements in both the United States and the Middle East to rising birth rates among particular populations.

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Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist and author of the recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?.

With all the current talk about the revival of religion, political scientist Eric Kaufmann takes a look at the statistics and muses that if demography is any guide, the world over the next half century will become much more religious and much more conservative. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Eric Kaufmann is a writer, researcher and teacher of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History and The Rise and Fall of Anglo America.

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[bbphnix]

Atheists: start breeding!

or increase the rate of people turning atheists

or best of all: stop the religious people breed by a chinese one child policy...

[bbphnix]

@MiranUT good point

[InvictusX100]

@RadarKat73080 LOL...yeah, whatever....LOL

[RadarKat73080]

@InvictusX100 No, I wanna jam my fist down your throut and turn you inside out!

[InvictusX100]

@RadarKat73080 You seek praise? LOL

[RadarKat73080]

@InvictusX100 All hail King of the Assholes!

[InvictusX100]

@RadarKat73080 All that proves is you have a bad memory and a mother not worth remembering.

[RadarKat73080]

@InvictusX100 So's everyone who quotes Jesus. While I think Jesus is based on a real person, everything he said was written down twenty to thirty years after he died. I couldn't tell you the last thing my grandmother said to me and she died two years ago, much less my mother, thirty years ago!

[InvictusX100]

@RadarKat73080 LOL...you are quoting a fictional character! LOL

[EntinludeX]

@EntinludeX I'm sure. Be well.