According to an analysis of census information, researchers using, a mathematicl model, have predicted that religion will slowly become "extinct" in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Thats nine countries! You know what that means! Soon, the nine will ride out onto the battlefield of the mind and rid Middle Ear-I mean,THE Earth of religion once and for all.
Okay, I'm getting a bit carried a way, but you have to admit, the imagery of these nine counrties as the nine Nazgul is pretty darn cool, if not a little ambiguous. The metaphor only works if you think of the Nazgul as a unstoppable force that will never quit until they succeed (i.e freedom from religion) and not as mindless thought slaves unquestionably following the will of a quasi-religious dark overlord.
But coming back to reality, it is clear that more and more people are coming around to the view that a positive future for humanity does not involve religion.
And thats pretty cool.
check out the news report here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197
check out the study here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1375
Does that seem right to you?
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