Islam Watch Out, Christianity Now Fastest Growing Religion

[Simi42069]

Christianity Fastest Growing Religion on Earth?

Posted April 29, 2005
Posted: April 28, 2005
2005 WorldNetDaily.com

What is the fastest-growing religion on Earth?

Most news reports suggest it is Islam.

But a new book makes a compelling case it is a new, or, perhaps, old form of biblically inspired evangelical Christianity that is sweeping through places like China, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.

In "Megashift," author Jim Rutz coins a new phrase to define this fast-growing segment of the population. He calls them "core apostolics" – or "the new saints who are at the heart of the mushrooming kingdom of God."

Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the fastest-growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the traditional Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.

He says there are 707 million "switched-on disciples" who fit into this new category and that this "church" is exploding in growth.

"The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and includes 707 million born-again people who are increasing by 8 percent a year," he says.

So fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according to Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.

"There will be pockets of resistance and unforeseen breakthroughs," writes Rutz. "Still, at the rate we're growing now, to be comically precise, there would be more Christians than people by the autumn of 2032, about 8.2 billion."

According to the author, until 1960, Western evangelicals outnumbered non-Western evangelicals – mostly Latinos, blacks and Asians – by two to one. As of 2000, non-Western evangelicals outnumbered Westerners by four to one. He says by 2010, the ratio will be seven to one.

"There are now more missionaries sent from non-Western nations than Western nations," he writes.

This trend, says Rutz, has been missed by Westerners because the explosive growth is elsewhere.

Hundreds of millions of these Christians are simply not associated with the institutional churches at all. They meet in homes. They meet underground. They meet in caves. They meet, he says, in secret.

And what is driving this movement?

Miracles, he says.

"Megashift" attempts to document myriad healings and other powerful answers to the sincere prayers of this new category of believer, including, believe it or not, hundreds of dramatic cases of resurrections – not near-death experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses.

"When I was a kid in Sunday school, I was really impressed that 3,000 people were saved on the Day of Pentecost," he writes. "I thought, 'Wow, that'll never happen again!"

But, Rutz says, it now happens around the globe every 25 minutes.

"By tomorrow, there will be 175,000 more Christians than there are today," he writes.

The essence of Rutz's book is about how Western Christians can tap into what he sees as a mighty word of God on Earth.

"Very few people realize the nature of life on Earth is going through a major change," he writes. "We are seeing a megashift in the basic direction of human history. Until our time, the ancient war between good and evil was hardly better than a stalemate. Now all has changed. The Creator whose epic story flows through the pages of Scripture has begun to dissolve the strongholds of evil. This new drama is being played out every hour around the globe, accompanied sometimes by mind-bending miracles."

[TX COLOMBIANO]

*waits for sum1 to start talkin out they ass*

[illomatic]

*burp*

[OsamaBinLaden]

why the hell r u even postin tht..like neone cares........this kinda stuff on a non-muslim board creates nothin but stupid issues.......u shudve known better.......

[Forilla]

werd playa

[La Mas Buena]

too much to read

[molvicorleone]

they dont mention that theyre killing a lot of muslims worldwide and have done for the past 1000 years.

the crusades still exist.

yet apparently muslims are terrorists

[pakstreetboy]

islam has been growin like a rocket in the world, still the fastest growin religion prooved in many books and anywhere on the net just search for it and u will find the poofs and answers, anywayz and ya thats true that millions of muslims have been killed by diff plp in the last couple of years so herez another proof of coward ass plp being scared of islam spreading fast thruout the world!
ha we suppose to be the terrorist and u suppose to be wat the angle! ha

[molvicorleone]

islam has been growin like a rocket in the world, still the fastest growin religion prooved in many books and anywhere on the net just search for it and u will find the poofs and answers, anywayz and ya thats true that millions of muslims have been killed by diff plp in the last couple of years so herez another proof of coward ass plp being scared of islam spreading fast thruout the world!
ha we suppose to be the terrorist and u suppose to be wat the angle! ha


its ok man

aside from this silly thread


give that persian gurl some credit at least she showed her face and then hated on islam......unlike the many ppl on RD and the person creating this thread...........for me i dont worry about christianity being the worlds largest religion.......it doesnt affect me and id rather see ppl be christian than athiest.........what gets me annoyed is why ppl seem to bother so much bout muslims......if they allowed us to just live in peace they wouldnt have to worry bout terrorists either.



offtopic but man whats with ur style and ur name

sort urself out man

pakstreet boy

HA ur gonna get bullied man

[Sphinx7]

christianity is the worlds largest propaganda.

[Simi42069]

You see thats the funny thing about you muslims, you guys can't see another religon rising other then yours. This is why you keep telling your self islam is this, islam is that. Thats Why you guys are getting owned worldwide. Here is an article that was published May 10, 2005.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7809537/

Report: Anti-Muslim hate crimes up sharply
Civil rights violations at highest level since just after 9/11 attacks
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:41 p.m. ET May 10, 2005

NEWARK, N.J. - The number of reported bias crimes and civil rights violations committed against Muslims in the United States soared to its highest level last year since the period immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a new report finds.

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The report by the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations blames lingering animosity toward Muslims and a growing use of anti-Muslim rhetoric by some political, religious and media figures for the increase.

The study, involving cases that were reported to the council by individuals and organizations, will be released Wednesday at a news conference in Washington, D.C. An advance copy was obtained by The Associated Press.

‘Rising Islamophobic rhetoric’
“We believe the disturbing rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes and in the total number of civil rights cases, both of which will be outlined in our news conference, can be attributed at least in part to rising Islamophobic rhetoric in American society,” said Arsalan Iftikhar, the council’s legal director.

The council counted 1,522 incidents in which Muslims reported their civil rights had been violated in 2004, a 49 percent increase over 2003. Another 141 incidents of confirmed or suspected bias crimes were committed against Muslims, a 52 percent rise.

Notable bias or discrimination cases cited in the report include the barring of singer Cat Stevens and Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States and the arrest of a Muslim lawyer from Oregon jailed as a “material witness” in the terrorist bombing of Madrid trains based on a fingerprint that turned out to belong to someone else.

Some startled by escalation
Some Muslim leaders were surprised by the findings. Yaser El-Menshawy, chairman of New Jersey’s council of mosques, said he and others thought the number of anti-Muslim incidents shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon reached a peak that would not be repeated.

“I thought we were through with the high point after 9/11,” he said. “My gut feeling is it may be a combination of the war in Iraq and mounting casualties, and that we’re getting better at collecting this kind of data.”

The report did contain some good news. Workplace discrimination complaints — 23 percent of all 2003 complaints — fell to less than 18 percent last year. Complaints involving government agencies fell from 29 percent in 2003 to 19 percent last year.

The most recent FBI report on hate crimes, issued last November and covering 2003, found that anti-Islamic crimes remained at the about same level — 149 — as the year before. The FBI report was drawn from information submitted by more than 11,900 law enforcement agencies around the country.

And the funny thing is, I didn't even commit to any of those crimes. You guys act like you guys don't see this type of shit infront of you and keep telling yourself allah is this, allah is that. Wake up and smell the fresh air. In the last two months alone, Islamic deaths went up to soaring heights.

[molvicorleone]

You see thats the funny thing about you muslims, you guys can't see another religon rising other then yours. This is why you keep telling your self islam is this, islam is that. Thats Why you guys are getting owned worldwide. Here is an article that was published May 10, 2005.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7809537/


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ur wrong

we dont have a problem with being outnumbered as long as we can practice our religion in peace we are happy.

thats what islam teaches.

dont forget we didnt start the crusades and we took over jeruslam peacefully without a drop of blood.

compare that to how christians took jerusalem.

but since we are talking about todays world. christians already are the majority and always have been. what makes u think we have a problem with that since its been that way from the very start?

[makavelii]

die on a cross like a christian...so fuck youu, plus ya weak religion



~CNN

[makavelii]

do the christains that rape lil kids and hoes in porn vides with the cross on count in that ratio number?

[Persian Mami]

bullshit

[Bam69u]

proud Agnostic!........thanks to people like yall




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[on_da_hustle703]

hmmm

[yusufislam]

ur wrong

we dont have a problem with being outnumbered as long as we can practice our religion in peace we are happy.

thats what islam teaches.

dont forget we didnt start the crusades and we took over jeruslam peacefully without a drop of blood.

[B]compare that to how christians took jerusalem.

but since we are talking about todays world. christians already are the majority and always have been. what makes u think we have a problem with that since its been that way from the very start?

Jerusalem was the Christians' 6 centuries before Mohammed or Umar Ibn Al-Khattab were born. Umar seized Palestine and Syria from the Byzantine empire, that is how islam was originally established in the Levant.

[C Gunz174]

Feels good to be neither.

[h0tb0y1010]

Feels good to be neither.
then ur for sure going to hell

[C Gunz174]

then ur for sure going to hell
Everyone is staying in the same place, 6 ft deep. in the Planet Earth.
Why should i worry about going to this so called Hell and Heaven, when it doesn't even exist. I wish we could go to hell, so maybe we can actually visit and chill out with Satan, drink a few smirnoffs, and write about our actual encounter in this mystical realm. Maybe we could even invite the "Good Lord" to come down and give us orders, since we are the slaves and he is thy master. :bsflag:

[paki*beast]

on the topic- if thats even tru- its just because more ppl are killing muslims...

[h0tb0y1010]

on the topic- if thats even tru- its just because more ppl are killing muslims...
another reason would be Vatican funds 1000s of missionaries across the world

[-MK-]

Everyone is staying in the same place, 6 ft deep. in the Planet Earth.
Why should i worry about going to this so called Hell and Heaven, when it doesn't even exist. I wish we could go to hell, so maybe we can actually visit and chill out with Satan, drink a few smirnoffs, and write about our actual encounter in this mystical realm. Maybe we could even invite the "Good Lord" to come down and give us orders, since we are the slaves and he is thy master. :bsflag:
:no:

[h0tb0y1010]

Everyone is staying in the same place, 6 ft deep. in the Planet Earth.
Why should i worry about going to this so called Hell and Heaven, when it doesn't even exist. I wish we could go to hell, so maybe we can actually visit and chill out with Satan, drink a few smirnoffs, and write about our actual encounter in this mystical realm. Maybe we could even invite the "Good Lord" to come down and give us orders, since we are the slaves and he is thy master. :bsflag:
lol i was playing im also neither.. that would be cool tho, heaven is so corny, they need to gothicize it

[Angeline]

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:firedevi:

[yusufislam]

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:firedevi:

what?

[Angeline]

what?

what ?

[Brown_Eyes]

another reason would be Vatican funds 1000s of missionaries across the world
food for belief? "I'll give you're starving ass if you accept Christianity"?

[Distinct]

islam has been growin like a rocket in the world, still the fastest growin religion prooved in many books and anywhere on the net just search for it and u will find the poofs and answers, anywayz and ya thats true that millions of muslims have been killed by diff plp in the last couple of years so herez another proof of coward ass plp being scared of islam spreading fast thruout the world!
ha we suppose to be the terrorist and u suppose to be wat the angle! ha

Sorry had to :lmaooo:

[cityboymia3o5]

:bored:











:firedevi::kiss:

[ayyaz253]

You see thats the funny thing about you muslims, you guys can't see another religon rising other then yours. This is why you keep telling your self islam is this, islam is that. Thats Why you guys are getting owned worldwide. Here is an article that was published May 10, 2005.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7809537/

Report: Anti-Muslim hate crimes up sharply
Civil rights violations at highest level since just after 9/11 attacks
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:41 p.m. ET May 10, 2005

NEWARK, N.J. - The number of reported bias crimes and civil rights violations committed against Muslims in the United States soared to its highest level last year since the period immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a new report finds.

advertisement
The report by the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations blames lingering animosity toward Muslims and a growing use of anti-Muslim rhetoric by some political, religious and media figures for the increase.

The study, involving cases that were reported to the council by individuals and organizations, will be released Wednesday at a news conference in Washington, D.C. An advance copy was obtained by The Associated Press.

‘Rising Islamophobic rhetoric’
“We believe the disturbing rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes and in the total number of civil rights cases, both of which will be outlined in our news conference, can be attributed at least in part to rising Islamophobic rhetoric in American society,” said Arsalan Iftikhar, the council’s legal director.

The council counted 1,522 incidents in which Muslims reported their civil rights had been violated in 2004, a 49 percent increase over 2003. Another 141 incidents of confirmed or suspected bias crimes were committed against Muslims, a 52 percent rise.

Notable bias or discrimination cases cited in the report include the barring of singer Cat Stevens and Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States and the arrest of a Muslim lawyer from Oregon jailed as a “material witness” in the terrorist bombing of Madrid trains based on a fingerprint that turned out to belong to someone else.

Some startled by escalation
Some Muslim leaders were surprised by the findings. Yaser El-Menshawy, chairman of New Jersey’s council of mosques, said he and others thought the number of anti-Muslim incidents shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon reached a peak that would not be repeated.

“I thought we were through with the high point after 9/11,” he said. “My gut feeling is it may be a combination of the war in Iraq and mounting casualties, and that we’re getting better at collecting this kind of data.”

The report did contain some good news. Workplace discrimination complaints — 23 percent of all 2003 complaints — fell to less than 18 percent last year. Complaints involving government agencies fell from 29 percent in 2003 to 19 percent last year.

The most recent FBI report on hate crimes, issued last November and covering 2003, found that anti-Islamic crimes remained at the about same level — 149 — as the year before. The FBI report was drawn from information submitted by more than 11,900 law enforcement agencies around the country.

And the funny thing is, I didn't even commit to any of those crimes. You guys act like you guys don't see this type of shit infront of you and keep telling yourself allah is this, allah is that. Wake up and smell the fresh air. In the last two months alone, Islamic deaths went up to soaring heights.


funny you mention this these are all american based opinions or statments dont you think there texts or speaches are going to be biased seeing that bin laden smashed america and him beeing muslim? erm erm dum ass hmm maybe you should do some details checks before posting a "serious discussion" have you noticed how "american goverment" has overthrown every capatilist country (possibly fear of power or getting toghter and creatin ww3) and creating a civil war for example iraq, africa and now again they are trying somalia again after beeing thrown out already by the mali's (watch out cuba) hmmm hence, thats why they are killing muslims what are they afraid of people must be somthing oh yeah dont forget koreans too?

touchy subject i geus