I personally, dont know anyone who attends church other than for weddings and funerals and I live in a city of 500,000 people.
2007-01-05 09:07:13 · 13 answers · asked by melvinbenjamin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it is on the decline in developed countries, and possibly on the incline in less developed countries. Europe best shows this trend, where most people don't even consider god a serious discussion.
2007-01-05 09:09:20 · answer #1 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Statistics can be misleading depending on how people answer and who they are. They can also be skewed do to how questions are asked and how answers are projected.
Some people chose to answer based on the topic; if they aren't religious, they may not care and not answer. Such a question posed to the general public (people are not randomly selected) may chose to answer because they want to (in this case, they probably do go to church and are proud of it).
The results may be based on how many people answer they went to church one time in the past year, and the result includes them as "people who attended church last year", ignoring their frequency.
Some people may lie because they think it makes them look better or it's what they think the asker wants for some reason.
Polls can be good for many things, but they must be done very carefully. I know several people who attend church regularly (or so they claim, and probably do); I do not, however.
2007-01-05 17:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While the total number of religious people is growing, the percentage of religious people in the population over all is shrinking.
We can only hope that the percentage eventually becomes 0.
2007-01-05 17:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ideally, humans will evolve beyond the point of needing religion, unless all the religious people kill everyone first, or if we are wiped out by some natural disaster, which is more likely I guess.
2007-01-05 17:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
im not sure. i guess it could be growing but ur right a lot of ppl dont attend church (me one of them) but that doesnt mean im not religious...u can still be religious but not attend church. but i also think that ppl like and think its cool not believing in religion nowadays so i guess religion isnt growing...but could be.but i dont think so. i think. maybe not.forget it. im not sure!!! : )
2007-01-05 17:09:00 · answer #5 · answered by flatteredwu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as people grow wiser on the whole less and less will be duped into believing such nonsense. Less and less people are going and the ones left that are going are getting more and more fanatical
2007-01-05 17:09:48 · answer #6 · answered by kardea 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All churches that hold service on sunday are synagouges of satan.
The bible tells us that there will come a time that you won't be able to find out what he told you to do, better try to find out before that time comes.
2007-01-05 17:10:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
well , the highest think is that plp gets save some people go to church for different thinks, but only god will judge us,it's true there i misleading but god will judge them too it's not up to me or you.
2007-01-05 17:12:09 · answer #8 · answered by stephen w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
facts are
people are growing in numbers who believes in religion
people are decreasing in number who practise religion.
2007-01-05 17:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by Shak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldn't be surprised if atheism and agnosticism are spreading more and more as time goes on
2007-01-05 17:10:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋