- 26 Oct 2015 13:59
#14612952
I stumbled across an interesting article on FiveThirtyEight a while ago, where Leah Libresco was looking at Pew Research's 2014 Religious Landscape study, specifically the rate of change between denominations where Christians lost 15% (mostly Catholic) most of which Unaffiliated picked up. So she ran an equilibrium analysis and found the Evangelicals and Unaffiliated both picking up 6%, practically all of it taken from the Catholics, who nosedive from 21% to 8%. But then she factored in fertility and the results changed drastically (though I assume the second would take longer than the first to reach equilibrium):
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke