Just jumping in with some random additional info for mairesue: there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 million Christians in Africa. Many of those are the offspring of the most aggressive evangelicals - who also tend to be extremists. (Statistically, historically and experientially speaking.) In North America, there are closer to 300 million, between 300 and 320 million. Africa has ~20% of the world's Christians right now. North America sits at sub-15% consistently. True, there are close to 450 million Muslims in Africa as well, and yes it's true it is the fastest growing religion worldwide, but not in Africa.
Too, when researching statistics, you have to remember they're just another brand of propaganda. You have to be careful to look at how they're being used and where they're drawing the information from and how recent the data is, etc. The numbers, when viewed as anything but numbers, can be made to say whatever one wants them to.
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Date: 2008-01-31 12:27 am (UTC)Too, when researching statistics, you have to remember they're just another brand of propaganda. You have to be careful to look at how they're being used and where they're drawing the information from and how recent the data is, etc. The numbers, when viewed as anything but numbers, can be made to say whatever one wants them to.