Comments about ‘Professor: the religious population will inherit the earth’

'Question: Who will inherit the earth? Answer: Whoever has the most children, says Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at the University of London.' - Article

Not two weeks ago a religious group was claiming the world was 'ending' and all the religious people would be saved.

Today, they will inherit the earth?

Well, which is it?

Yes but have you thought about what kind of earth the religious will inherit?

The countries with the highest standards of living are often "secular" nations. Any of you want to live in high birth rate countries like Islamic Pakistan or Catholic Mexico? Funny how residents of these countries have a habit of emigrating to more secular nations than their own.

Since the religious and their holy wars will destroy all of humanity because they never can agree whos god is greater, "who will inherit the Earth?" is a moot question.

The Mormons are outbreeding most others in the US.

Excellent article and very astute observations. In my experience, people who don't have at least some religious belief are more likely to advocate positions such as not bringing children into "an already over-populated world." Or not "tying (themselves) down with children." Or children will not allow "proper focus" on a career. And so it is natural that zero growth advocates will become less of a force and "believers" more of a force in the world.

Beliefs aren't genetic. Children born to religious parents aren't necessarily going to be religious themselves.

Genetic or not 3 of my four LDS kids acre active.

Whatever bits of it they inherit, they're going to fight over.

This article mistakenly assumes that children of religious people will remain religious. I can personally assure you that is not always the case.

I have 8 siblings, one is active the rest are inactive or have left the Church all together.

The concept sounds right but... if it were true then why is the percentage of atheists in nations like the US and European nations increasing? Yeah more kids are born into religious families... but they're "converting" to atheism.

why did an article about demographic trends result in a lot of religion bashing? Why all the hate?

As an anthropologist I find this article to be severely lacking in many areas. Now, granted the largest breeding population will "inherit the earth" however one must also take into account breeding population. Regardless that one "religious society"promotes and encourages large births, if you have a breeding pool that only breeds within itself then you will eventually have rise to non beneficial genetic mutations. Fortunately with modern advances in genetic research a lot of that will be soon be less of an issue.

Look at many countries in Africa esp. the birth numbers. The birth numbers are higher than anywhere else in the world due to the many AIDS related deaths which in turn frees up resources and in doing so allows for more births.

We must however, not fall in to the trap that more children are better. When a society has more than it can care and nurture then that leads to other things from resource strain to the rise of counter cultures and deviant sub cultures.

Who ever has the most kids??? I know human beings!