No its not because no nation in the world has advanced because it was following just a religion and there has been no good government in the world in a Theocracy. Atheists have advanced civilization, not any Religious people. All it means is, this world would advance more, there would be lesser Hunger, Poverty, injustice, prejudice and hate in future by the Will of God.
Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.
I heard the news last night over the BBC short wave
radio. The reason, I think is not so much for increase
in Muslim population but more due to decrease in the
followers of faith in the western countries. If the
process continues then there will be nothing called
christianity or catholisism in not too distant future.
Increase in the number of athiests and pagans will not
help the world or humanity. this is an undesirable
trend.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- Jahed Ahmed <worldcitizen73@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Muslims more numerous than Catholics
> By ALESSANDRA
> RIZZO, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 54 minutes
> ago
>
> Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the
> world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said
> Sunday.
> "For the first time in history, we are no longer at
> the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor
> Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the
> Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti
> compiles the Vatican's yearbook.
> He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent
> of the world population — a stable percentage —
> while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
> "It is true that while Muslim families, as is well
> known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian
> ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer,"
> the monsignor said.
> Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The
> figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim
> countries and then provided to the United Nations,
> he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch
> for its own data.
> When considering all Christians and not just
> Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the
> world population, Formenti said.
> Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations
> did not immediately return phone calls seeking
> comment Sunday.
>
>
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