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If all religion is good for is winning the population war against non believers, then religion (and the people who view it as a way to take over the world demog
by ZanyProgrammer 10y ago
If all religion is good for is winning the population war against non believers, then religion (and the people who view it as a way to take over the world demographically) are a colossal piece of shit.
Anyways, the conservative (in general) view that the ultra religious will outbreed us heretics has been around for ages. A lot of those groups you mention are rather small, and in the grand scheme of things, its uncertain whether or not mainstream conservative Christians who have above replacement levels of children, whether or not those children continue as adults to be uber religious.
- toasterlovin 10y agoMy point was more that there is a huge genetic selection event ongoing in the developed world. The genetic fitness landscape has changed as a result of modernity and people who somehow manage to have a bunch of kids despite living in developed countries carry the genes that are currently being selected for. Regarding religious people though: religiosity is a heritable trait. Not perfectly heritable, but heritable nonetheless. So if religious people have above replacement fertility and secular people don't, then the religiosity of the population as a whole should shift upward over time. It might take a long time, but that would seem to be the implication.