Today's Deccan Chronicle reports on a study which concludes that Britain will not be Christian by 2030 i.e. at a relatively very near future. Christianity is losing more than half a million every year. This loss to Christianity is no gain to other religions as actually the numbers of Atheists and Agnosists are swelling by approximately 7,50,000 every year. No reasons were attributed; atleast in the brief newspaper report.
It is also in news today that the VHP's International President has expressed concern over conversions in Andhra Pradesh especially in six districts where massive conversions from Hinduism is said to be on. He attributed the reason to pumping of money, though social inequalities could also be contributory. How does it matter if one professes this religion or that as long as he is not religious as he is oblivious of universal brotherhood.
The peculiar secularists of India will gloat on both these developments, inconsistent they are. Now juxtaposing the erosion at one place and swelling in another, I wonder what is going on in the minds of Missionaries. If this trend extends further to the other western white nations, on top of their dwindling birth rates, where from will the billions come to save the souls of the dark heathens of Asia and Africa? How long conversions can be sustained if dollars are choked off?
Recently Pope was in news for condemning conceiving through medical assistance. He called it arrogance against God. Now with such sentiments, it is no wonder progressive and thinking people prefer atheism to Christianity in UK and other western nations.
Mao famously called religion, the opium of masses. Lighter vein apart, religions have been tyrannical and now given the threat to their existence, they tend to become paranoid and rigider. This could lead to conflicts than spiritual solace.
…ponder
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