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March 23, 2011
Religion to Die Out in 9 Nations
By John Smith
In a large number of modern secular democracies, there's been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated with religion.
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Religion is bound for extinction in nine nations where it's already in decline, according to researchers using mathematical models. The researchers applied the principle of "nonlinear dynamics" to census data from the countries--Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland--and predicted that religion will die out completely in those countries as religious groups shrink and as becoming a member of a religion offers fewer and fewer social benefits.