The Difference Between New Christians and New Muslims
Allegory of Fertility - Jacob Jordaens
According to George Weigel (1) writing in the Denver Catholic Register, as of mid-2011, there will be an average of 80,000 new Christians per day and 79,000 new Muslims per day.
Of course if the Muslim population today were equal to the number of Christians, there would instead be 113,562 new Muslims every day because of their higher fertility rate (see Fertility Rates of Muslim and Non-Muslim Countries).
Thus in actual bodies, Islam is not the fastest growing religion, as is often alleged by its adherents.
Now allow me to tell you the difference between these new Christians and these new Muslims.
Yes, every 24 hours there will be 80,000 new Christians, the majority of whom will grow up literate, decent, law-abiding, intelligent, healthy, modern, free, enlightened, and productive. In that same time period, there will be 79,000 new Muslims the majority of whom will grow up illiterate, violent, criminal, dim-witted, sick, backward, enslaved, un-enlightened, and impoverished.
As I wrote in my article Idiocracy - A world filled with Liberals and Muslims, unless we change the way the world is going, our descendents will live in a world "where liberty and freedom will be words without meaning, esoteric fill-ins for crossword puzzles, assuming for the moment that the Islamic world will even permit puzzles and games."
ENDNOTES
(1):
Denver Catholic Register, Christian number-crunching
Compared to the world’s 2.3 billion Christians , there are 1.6 billion Muslims, 951 million Hindus, 468 million Buddhists, 458 million Chinese folk-religionists, and 137 million atheists, whose numbers have actually dropped over the past decade, despite the caterwauling of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Co. One cluster of comparative growth statistics is striking: as of mid-2011, there will be an average of 80,000 new Christians per day (of whom 31,000 will be Catholics) and 79,000 new Muslims per day, but 300 fewer atheists every 24 hours.
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Weigel’s column is distributed by the Denver Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Denver.
