A Sad Outlook for Humanity

This doesn’t bode well. Here’s an interesting list of predictions from the study:

• The main drivers of religious affiliation to 2043 are immigration and secularization. However, fertility matters more in the long term.

• Muslims will outnumber Jews by approximately 2020

• Jews, white Catholics and liberal Protestants will decline

• Protestants will decline from a majority in 2003 to 40 percent by 2043; Catholics may outnumber Protestants by mid-century

• The non-religious will increase their share of the white population but not of the total population

• Secularization will plateau by 2043 and will reverse thereafter.

Happily, I think there are other variables at play here that will improve the odds of secular expansion–the most important of which will be technologies that raise intelligence. ::