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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Western, secular democracies like Canada and Germany may be losing their religion, but the global picture looks different.
My daughter's basketball practices take place in school gyms all over south Calgary, and recently I picked her up from a Christian Academy. As I was waiting, I walked over to look at the pictures of classes on the walls, expecting to see a bunch of pasty Europeans. I was surprised to see almost half the students were non-European.
As a country whose growth today comes largely from immigration, I'm not so sure Canada's religiosity numbers will continue to decline over the next 30 years the way they did in the last 30.
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This is exactly my experience as well. In my last few years @ TWU my classes have become increasingly more and more populated by International students. I gave a directed study this summer in Ancient Israelite Religion, and my student was a minister from China with designs on studying here and returning to church ministry back home.