The Prophet 22;394927 wroteHow to respond to this? Mark believes this too. In general people make this claim when one doesn't agree with their opinion. However, I would agrue we know more today, then we have at anypoint in history.
Prophet22
I would agree with your last statement. Human knowledge has never been greater, but this fact does not preclude my statement.
The general population does not understand concepts like causality or inference, or know what a logical fallacy is.
Examining the current spread of religion today, I would start by asking what is meant by the word spread. Is there an implication that the number of devout individuals are increasing, or that the percentage of devout individuals with respect to population is increasing. Or both. Or neither, and it means something else.
A quick Internet search reveals that by 2050 the percentage of individuals that are atheist, agnostic, or religiously unaffiliated will drop globally from 16% (in 2010) to 13%. Seems like religion is spreading... but is it?
Or is it because the current birth rates for the Islamic population is currently around 3.1% and 2.7% for Christianity. Both of these numbers are above global rates, and way ahead of secular rates.
It seems to me that it all depends on how you define the word spread, and how hard you want to manipulate the data!
But I stand by my original statement!