The Story of the Century: Christianity & Islam

- Prophesy News Watch -

We told you recently on BreakPoint that despite appearances in our corner of the world, religion is not going extinct. Quite the contrary. Predictions by the likes of Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud that faith would vanish have turned out spectacularly wrong.

Yes, in the West (particularly Europe) religion is on the decline. But on a global scale, secularism is the worldview that's losing steam. As Giles Fraser wrote recently in The Guardian, "The secularization hypothesis is a European myth, a piece of myopic parochialism that shows how narrow our worldview [is]... Religion is the future."

But which religion?

Recent events have brought radical Islam back into the spotlight. But the world's second-largest and fastest-growing religion is much bigger than the jihadists of Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, comprising several major sects. And though terrorism puts an exclamation mark on Islam, you could write a whole book about the millions of Muslims who are more concerned with living out their faith than engaging in violent jihad.

And like Christianity, Islam is growing. Fast. A study last year by Pew Research concluded that by 2050, Islam will swell to 2.76 billion adherents, or one third of the world's population!

Christianity, meanwhile, is expected to hold on to its title as the world's largest religion, tipping the scales at just under 3 billion professing adherents.

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