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Originally Posted by RebelR
In order for the Fundamentalists to out breed the Atheists ( or I would argue that most people are Agnostic)
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see above on the difference between agnosticism and atheism. They are not mutually exclusive.
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One would have to assume that greater than 50% of the offspring actually conform to the religion in which they were brought up, otherwise those same fundamentalists could be breeding themselves into a minority!
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I may be wrong on this, but there may be more at play here for why certain groups have more children than others.
For instance, it may be that higher educated, wealthier groups have less children, while lower educated, poorer groups have more children.
The fact that lower educated, poorer groups are more religious, or are the fastest growing groups of religious, may not be the cause, but rather a correlate, of the birthrate.