Does the religious myth benefit modern society or not?

[Max King of the Wild]

nuckles87 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

o, the last 25-30 years, we got much smarter because of computers/internet/games/scientific progress. The numbers of people who believe in God has also decreased significantly since then. Why can't people be reasonable and just accept facts like this?

LilChicken22 said:

I'm pretty sure the number of people who believe in god has gone up

It hasn't.

http://www.economist.com/node/2156087

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Roman Catholic Church

• Church membership in 2007 was 1.147 billion people,^[5] (17% of the global population at the time) increasing from the 1950 figure of 437 million^[6] (17% of the global population at the time) and the 1970 figure of 654 million.^[7] On 31 December 2008, membership was 1.166 billion, an increase of 11.54% over the same date in 2000, only slightly greater than the rate of increase of the world population (10.77%). The increase was 33.02% in Africa, but only 1.17% in Europe. It was 15.91% in Asia, 11.39% in Oceania, and 10.93% in Americas. As a result, Catholics were 17.77% of the total population in Africa, 63.10% in Americas, 3.05% in Asia, 39.97% in Europe, 26.21% in Oceania, and 17.40% of the world population. Of the world's Catholics, the proportion living in Africa grew from 12.44% in 2000 to 14.84% in 2008, while those living in Europe fell from 26.81% to 24.31%.^[8] Membership of the Catholic Church is attained through baptism.^[9] If someone formally leaves the Church, that fact is noted in the register of the person's baptism.

And that's just catholics