Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says

I'm just waiting for more from the teapartygirl. Hilarious. Just wonder about her opinion on dinosaurs and the age of the planet.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

maybe RELIGIONS will fade away, but ISLAM will live forever... There is no debate that we have a creator.

About time too! Hope it spreads to the rest of the word

@160. Jeff

Lol at science being responsible for our problems. Way to go in terms of refusing to see the writing on the wall. Science is not responsible for our problems, we are. Day we realise this and stop blaming inanimate thought constructs for our hangovers, we get one step closer to solving them.

WorldofBrianRice
I wasn't responding to your post. However there is much that scientists also blind themselves to. This is a huge discussion.
1. Placebo's shouldn't work but do -this in itself is a huge question ie what we percieve to be 'real' and what is 'real'.
2. How we percieve -conscience and is it possible to measure all we percieve?
Christians say one cannot percieve God without Christ

rubbish - one of the BBC articles regarding baptism in Russia recalls how religion was frowned upon during the Soviet era, but has now "made a big comeback" - and of course secularisation is occuring in 'westernised' nations (interesting to see that out of these 9 nations, none of them were in the middle east, asia, etc) but does not mean that this is a global phenomenon!

There are a lot of people mentioning the fact that when countries have tried to destroy religion, it has resulted in the killing of many innocent people. I'm not quite sure how this is relevant as no one is trying to destroy religion. As scientific knowledge has increased our understanding of the universe, people find religion less relevant as the answers in most religious teachings are illogical

Whether or not you want to be religious, should be a choice, not something that's forced down your throat (or pants in the case of some religions) at an age where you believe that the moon is made from green cheese.

If there's one area I never want to see religion in, it's politics. Whether its the tea party in the US or the BJP in India, these two make evil bedmates.

I haven't gone to church, except a time or two for Easter or Christmas, for many years. I believe the bible just as religiosn are man made. Believing there is an energy out there. I think all are somewhat interrelated, but I am not a religious person. I am a spiritual being.

It is rare that I am provoked enough to join a comment site, but while the supposed subject-matter interested me, I looked in vain for any concrete substance or argumentation in the article. In parts it was a great example of how to say nothing with words, though. Certainly didn't convince me either way, and would only lead to protagonists throwing stones at each other across a vacuum.

The religion argument.
Again.
You can get rid of have your say, but you'll never get rid of this one. Alas

@ topic, religion is losing its relevance in most aspects of our lives. I have noticed an interesting trend, the more developed a nation becomes, the more secular its outlook.

It won't die out, it's too well established a meme to just fade away, but its importance will gradually reduce. I have no problems with religions personally, it's just that its followers will never control their egos ever

I've also noticed that athiests know they are not wrong, its comforting and an idea that they understand, does not need to be ' pushed ' on anyone. Most of us come to this agnostic or athiestic conclusion on our own...no books, no mentoring or persuasion needed, not hard sell...one comes to it naturally. I also think most of us wish it weren't so and that a creator would be nice...but so be it.

As far as I'm concerned this can only be a good thing. Religion offers next to nothing when it comes to the progression of human kind, only division and persecution.

Believing in the universe and the stars is much more optimistic!

Good. Religion only persists because of the systematic brainwashing of the young impressionable minds of children. The sooner it becomes extinct, the better it will be for the whole human race.

Some of the comments here are hilarious For example teapartygirl says-

"How can you even deny something that doesn't exist, to deny it, is admitting it's very existence."

is a logical fallacy. It is like trying to argue that bald is a hair style or that 'colourless' is a colour. If we follow the same logic, absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

Physics predicting extinctions? Wha? Science is actually the cause of many of the extinctions taking place in the physical world today. Plastics, dioxins, DDT, & chlorofluorocarbons were all created by modern science. Global warming is the result of the work of scientists, who recited from their scientific catechism, "I just do the research, I'm not responsible for the application."

Papers in the Physics Archive are not peer reviewed, so should be read with caution. If I had been asked to review this paper, there are a number of points that I would make, starting with the point already made by other comments here that is is an extremely biased selection of countries that have been used, with a complete lack of Islamic countries.