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Atheists and the endurance of religion

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On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population... In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/eric-kaufmann/london-a-rising-island-of-religion_b_2336699.html London: A Rising Island of Religion in a Secular Sea] by Eric Kaufmann, ''Huffington Post'', 2012</ref>}}
Dr. Rodney Stark, an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], wrote in his book ''The Triumph of Faith'':{{cquote|"[[Secular]]ists have been predicting the imminent demise of religion for centuries. They have always been wrong—and their claims today are no different. It is their unshakable faith in secularization that may be the most "'irrational" ' of all beliefs.(p. 212)."<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/world-more-religious-than-ever-rodney-starks-triumph-faith-secularism-atheism-154641/ Despite What You've Heard, World Is More Religious Than Ever], Christian Post</ref>}}
Britain's ''Financial Times'' published an article in 2018 with the title/subtitle of: "The return of religion. Among atheists as well as believers, strident [[secularism]] is giving way to a renewed sense of faith’s hold."<ref>FT.com Friday, 30 March 2018</ref> See also: [[Decline of militant atheism in the West]]