Do you think that Christianity will be over in 50-100 years?

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Do you think that Christianity will be over in 50-100 years?

I read somewhere that Christianity has steadily been dying since the early nineties. The article I read also stated that by 2030 or so, only something like 10% of people will consider themselves as being Christian.

If this is true, this means that the future will be filled with a lot more free-thinkers than there are today. I envy the people of the future. Those will be better times I can assure you.

Unfortualtely not, if anything christianity is on the rise, the evangelicals make it fun for youth, their worship is more like a mini pop concert. So no I think christianity is here for the long haul

I don't think so. Christianity has been through 2000 years of turbulence already.

freethinker = atheist?

since the 1890's if you read Nietzche.

I didn't realize Nietzche had the final word on Christianity.

And is christianity the only religion out there with some good and sometimes just plain silly ideas. Nah, and well I don't think an atheist is all too freethinking just like anyone else of some religion. Atheistism comes with evidence but not completely destroying faiths thus in its own way becoming faith in itself. Lots of Atheist would argue that they're not a religion, this is true is some regard but no atheist to date can truly disprove spirituality and gods and devils. Nor can a theist can do the opposite.

I think all sectarian religions will largely be replaced by dogma-free spirituality. So dogmatic christianity will certainly also dwindle to a very small minority.

I expect it to dwindle to a very small minority too. That's what the bible says.

What is "dogma-free spirituality?"

No, as SlowMutant said, christianity has been through worse times, and still survived.


Christianity, regardless of what some evangelicals would say, has always been small compared to other eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. I want to say that all three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) combined have about as many followers as Buddhism does (though I could be wrong).


I wasn't aware that christianity and free thought were mutually exclusive...

Or, you could visit a mainstream church, where actual theology is discussed, instead of just the Big Three hot button issues (homosexuality, immigration, and abortion), and realize that not all christians are like the ones you keep hearing about (or just plain hearing) on TV and radio...

All spiritual paths that reject blind faith such as the belief that something is absolutely true because one or more holy persons supposedly got a message directly from God. Blind faith or clinging to dogmas stands opposed to having an open mind towards practical experiences and experiments. In the near future more and more people will reject blind faith and religious fairy tales and accept that spirituality is a universal human phenomenon rather than a sectarian affair.

You should visit Europe m8.
The native populations have turned theyr back on christianity on mass.
On the other hand mosqs are being build everywhere replacing christianity ad the main religion with islam.
For now Islam is only the dominant religion in the biggest citys due to population shifts.
But it is spreading extremely fast.
The majority of the native population is atheist.
Whilst the majority of the immigrants are Turks and Arabs wich are pretty much all muslims.
It's insane how a country has changed in 50 years after having been Catholic/protestant mostly for many centurys.
Another change is that the south wil proberbly become more Catholic than it is due to immigratns from eastern Europe.

Looking at eastern Europe you can see that there are still many Catholics and Orthodox people living there.
But this is changing as wel.
There can easily be revivals though during difficult times.

New Age Religion, in other words.

nope. Christianinty is the fastest growing religion on the planet.
only Western Europe and North American Austriali/New Zealand have declining rates.

I think it'll either go hardcore fundamentalist or turn into a vague, New-Ageish type spirituality.

Is that the new term for heathen religions?