How would you explain the vast increase in christians, from 600 million in year 1910 to more than that, 800 million, now, of protestant alone?

[strateguy632]

the number of Christians in the world, has almost quadrupled from about 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion in 2020. Christianity remains the world's largest religious group.

800 million catching up to ancient hindu's 900 m.

Despite the millions of europeans and Americans dying in 2 world wars... which reduced the total christians, yet the total multiplied.

and this increase was without any scary catholic inquisition, so how can we explain these incongruous facts?

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www.pewresearch.org/.../ explains the rate christian increase was GREATER than population increase , indicated real growth also the place was not Europe so truly spread. see there. not family as anonymous wrote here. different place and faster.

[jshm2]

They killed off most of the competition. Not to mention force converted and enslaved a lot of the survivors.

But your numbers are off, Christianity is actually the fastest declining religion in the US.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

[strateguy632]

in 1910? false. not " killed off most of the competition". nor force converted.
you bring a record from one country to claim "numbers off" but i wrote about global total.

[strateguy632]

bots don't know how to contrast. lol.

[genericname85]

we are having a pretty much global recession right now. people in lower socio-economic status strata have a higher likelyhood of being religious. so that's why there's more religious people "in general". the increase in christians is actually slightly smaller as the increase in muslims currently.

[strateguy632]

clever cherry picking "increase" but the % of smaller total is still less. 9% of 200 is 18, >14% of 100 is only 14.

[strateguy632]

also your theory of poor becoming religious has 3 problems. a, it wouldn't explain prefering Christianity over a thousand other options, bahai with a "higher increase" rate, etc. . b, people who suffer get mad at god, for making them suffer so poor wouldn't cause religion. 3, in britain the recession as you wrote coincided with more "no religion" matching the theory anger at god, and opposing your theory poor are religious.

[genericname85]

yeah lets just throw in some random numbers without context or meaning and call it a day.

[strateguy632]

www.pewresearch.org/.../ numbers KNOWN. and faster rate.

[genericname85]

relate back to what i first said. none of the numbers you named where in any way referencing what i said. you are just talking to say words but you're not having a conversation with me.

i did not say that you become religious when you become poor. i said that people in lower socio-economic status have a higher likelyhood of being religious than people of higher socio economic status. i'm talking about correlation, you're talking about causation. it's not the same thing. what i mentioned was not a "a theory" at all. so it can't be a poor theory, cause it's a true fact that can objectively be verified and observed through multivariate analysis.

my last comment related to your statement "clever cherry picking "increase" but the % of smaller total is still less. 9% of 200 is 18, >14% of 100 is only 14.", which i have no idea what you're even talking about cause you're just throwing in numbers without saying what the numbers even are " % of smaller total is still less" percent of what is less of what? speak in coherent sentences man.

[genericname85]

and by the way the number of muslims is still growing faster. than the number of christians. that's also a fact. whether you like it or not.

[Anonymous]

The population of the planet has increased 1 billion in 1910 to 7 billion in 2010. So the there are 7 times the number of people on the planet. So more people born and born into Christian families means more Christians, of anything by percentage the number of Christians have dropped.

[strateguy632]

1, way off! 1910 was 1.8b. not 1. not by 7 times!
"the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion in 2010." 3.8 times more not SEVEN. also the place of Christian was Europe but Europe not quadruple! so "not children family" but real growth, convincing people with PROOF.

[petitedollbabee]

Only thing that I can think of is the population increase. We’re at 8 billion now, whereas In 1910 it was an estimated 1.8 billion.

[strateguy632]

u. s. population did triple 100m. to 300 m. , but that is still not quadruple, like 600m. to 2.3b.
the major addition wasn't christian countries, see my reply to grond 21 here, so not parents teaching their own kids.
asia quadrupled 1b. to 4b. but those places are islam hindu still christian quadruple. also africa place islam, grew 0.1b to 1b but christian quadrupled as above. it seems the missionaries convinced people.

[FunkyMonkee]

600,0000,000 out of 1,800,000,000 113 years ago as opposed to 800,000,000 out of 8,000,000,000 today, that sounds like a VERY steep decrease, to me!

[strateguy632]

@FunkyMonkee the second number 800m was protestant as i had specified. andvi was off by 30 million realy 830 million in 2006 and 960 m. in 2015. 16% rate increase.

[Anpu23]

But the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion in 2010. As a result, Christians make up about the same portion of the world’s population today (32%) as they did a century ago (35%).

[strateguy632]

good quote... the following paragraph of THAT quote is DIFFERENT places, truly spread... by convincing proof

[Anpu23]

Not necessarily, Christianity has spread significantly in some countries such as Africa, but that also means that Christianity also decreased in other countries that were predominantly Christian such as the west. A lot of that is due to various missions and schools that converted by education, if you wanted a free education for your child your only choice is to convert at least nominally. That doesn't represent truth as most in the west are at least somewhat familiar with Christianity and its beliefs and have rejected the religion of their upbringing. True conversion would assume a constant in numbers in predominately Christian areas and an increase in other areas. That's not the case as I pointed out earlier the percentage has remained more or less constant.

[sean1234]

The sad truth is that out of those people in the early 1900s, not necessarily 1910, but born around 1930-50s let's say, they are mostly Christian and still alive and are probably a larger % of that 800million. That number would be dramatically decreased when they die off. Assuming the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ hasn't occurred yet.

[sean1234]

Yet earth's population has greatly increased since 1910 and as a side note most "protestants" don't even know what protestantism even is... which is an opposition to the catholic church and wverything they stand for.



I have a request... Can you ask the asker of Should christians celebrate Halloween? Why I'm no longer able to respond? Out of the creeps there still talking... why only me?

[strateguy632]

probably they blocked you.

[sean1234]

Why do people like that ask questions they DON'T want to know the answers to?

[FunkyMonkee]

It's part of the great dumbing down. People are getting more and more gullible.

[RoοstеrBrеаst]

[FunkyMonkee]

@RoοstеrBrеаst Another oxynoron.

[strateguy632]

clever but actually people are more and more educated.

[FunkyMonkee]

Then, why would they believe in that bullshit?

[RoοstеrBrеаst]

@strateguy632 actually I got my high school diploma without ANY studying or homework for the last 2 and a half years of school. 0. I did them over zoom class. And I graduated with no exams, the only assignments in grade 12 were all easily answered using quick internet search because they ask the same questions other students every year.

Although high school diploma has not meant a lot during the past decades anyway and many don't consider it "esucation" like they consider college, still, the standards are declining, and now people can own language models akin to chat GPT4 that work offline on inexpensive hardware which does all the work in seconds that could take you an hour to complete.

I wouldn't say that living conditions are declining this decade though, like people are becoming aware of the need of fitness, and we know poor health interferes with good brain function... and avoiding CHEMICALS IN THE WATER is important if you want healthy brains and a healthy offspring (watch this to heal ifyou were exposed to the poison) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5cZzbKvW0

Some people are getting dumber while others are getting smarter. And healthier, by using the medicine I provide.

[goaded]

In the same period, the total world population increased by nearly five times (1,650 million in 1900 to over 8 billion now). And that's with Western countries being the populations to benefit from antibiotics first in the world.

[strateguy632]

nope 3.8 see update.

[fuddly]

Also factor in population increase

And the fact the people in 1910 were empire taking over other countries and spreading their culture and values

What i think will happen next is the disintegration of that religion. The west is dropping religion... How long will that take to filter out to those other countries and 2 billion people.

[Grond21]

What's the population ratio of total people to Christian then versus now?
Perhaps the message was more appealing in the last century.

[strateguy632]

good question, today i checked. Europe has a concentration of Christians its population increased... from 1910 to 2010 but less than double, 4x2>7 so this is not kids following parents. but more added, somehow. also island population 6 million to 36m. 6x more. africa 10x more than 1910. to @Grond21

[Grond21]

Island population? What island?

Thank you for checking. I am not surprised there are more Christians, as it's a very appealing religion

[strateguy632]

island meant island zone in pacific.

[Grond21]

What's the ratio of the Christians to the total population in each of the two time periods?

[OfDeath]

The world's population has exploded due to scientific advancements in medicine. There are more people.

[strateguy632]

true, more people, but why would those added people, choose this faith when many other faiths?

[OfDeath]

Europeans which were predominantly Christians colonized and populated vast swathes of Earth over the last couple of hundred years.

[strateguy632]

that ignores the dates in the question. colonizing was 1800's. also asia quadrupled but that is a place of islam and hindu.

[OfDeath]

I already addressed that in my answer to this question. Bigger world population. Asia is not only Buddhists, hindus and muslims. There are christians too. Especially in Korea. It is like this: Europe was mostly Christian. That is distorted now because of immigration and Christianity is in decline worldwide.

Europeans colonized the Americas. Thats billions of people altogether. A lot of Christians. Then you have other colonies in Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia etc. Again, all mostly Christian.
Colonization over the last couple of centuries and population explosion because of scientific advances. This is the reason.

[OfDeath]

Uhh… did you actually read the link you posted?