Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Monday, 25 April 2016
Ten Countries that Will Have an Evangelical Majority by the 22nd Century
This list displays the ten countries that are most likely to have Evangelical Christian majorities by 2100 at the latest. It assumes that each country's Evangelical percentage will grow by 1% every four years. In the case of south American countries it is predicted to go up 1.5% every four years.
To be clear this is a prediction; wars, missionary work by Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses, and natural disasters can all effects how Evangelicalism grows.
1.) Kenya: Protestant missionaries only arrived in the east African country in the 1800's yet as of 2016 more than 45% of Kenyans identify as not just Protestant but specifically Evangelical. Kenya is predicted to reach 50% by 2036.
2.) Vanuatu: As of 2016 about 45% of Vanuatus identify as Evangelical representing half of the Christian-identifying population. Vanuatu is predicted to reach a majority Evangelical poplution by 2036.
3.) Saint Vincent: This Caribbean Island was named after a French Catholic priest but in modern times has a Protestant-Evangelical population that represents 39% of the population. Saint Vincent is predicted to have an Evangelical majority by 2060.
4.) Uganda: This central African country only encounter Protestant missionaries in the late 1800's; today some 37% of Ugandans identify as Evangelical. Uganda is predicted to become an Evangelical majority by 2068.
5.) El Salvador: The country whose name translates to "The Savior" is thought to have 33% Evangelicals and it is predicted to reach a majority by 2068.
6.) The Bahamas: Located within 200 miles of the Florida about 34% of people who live here are Evangelicals. The Bahamas is predicted to become an Evangelical majority by 2080.
7.) Barbados: Currently about 34% of Barbados' citizens are Evangelicals. Barbados is predicted to become a majority Evangelical country by 2080.
8.) Brazil: Although Latin America is largely thought of as Catholic this old religion is fading. As of 2016 26% of Brazilians identify as Evangelical and by 2080 it is predicted to become the first Evangelical-majority country in South America.
9.) Solomon Islands: This country named after none other than Solomon himself is 33% Evangelical. The Solomon Islands are predicted to have an Evangelical majority by 2084.
Source:
http://www.operationworld.org/hidden/evangelical-population
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Most Immoral Provinces/Territories
Most Immoral Provinces/Territories
|
Province/Territory
|
Overall
|
Homicide
|
Sexual Assault
|
Robbery
|
Assault
|
|
Nova Scotia
|
1
|
12
|
7
|
12
|
1
|
|
Nunavut
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
9
|
2
|
|
Northwest Territories
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
10
|
4
|
|
New Brunswick
|
4
|
9
|
9
|
1
|
3
|
|
Newfoundland
|
5
|
13
|
8
|
11
|
5
|
|
Yukon
|
6
|
2
|
3
|
5
|
6
|
|
Saskatchewan
|
7
|
6
|
5
|
3
|
7
|
|
Manitoba
|
8
|
4
|
4
|
2
|
8
|
|
Alberta
|
9
|
5
|
6
|
6
|
9
|
|
British Colombia
|
10
|
8
|
11
|
4
|
11
|
|
PEI
|
11
|
7
|
13
|
13
|
10
|
|
Quebec
|
12
|
11
|
12
|
8
|
12
|
|
Ontario
|
13
|
10
|
10
|
7
|
13
|
The above table uses 2014 data
from Statistics Canada. It ranks them from the highest to the lowest immorality
rate (which is the homicide, sexual assault, robbery and assault rate combined.)
The color shows the majority
religion of the Province / Territory according to the 2011 Canada-wide census.
[] = Protestant
[]=
Catholic
[]= No religious affiliation
Observations
1-The
Northern Territories tend to have higher immorality ratings with especially
high homicide and sexual assault rates.
2-Atlantic
Provinces are generally more immoral than other Provinces with Prince Edward
Island being the major exception.
3-Canada’s
two largest provinces have a noticeably low immorality rates with the exception
of the robbery rate.
4-Western
Provinces tend to have high homicide and sexual assault rates.
5-Atlantic
Provinces have lower robbery rates.
6-Majority
no-religious affiliation provinces tend to have higher robbery rates.
7-The
five provinces/territories with the highest assault rates all begin with the
letter “N”.
-Quebec,
which operates under the Napoleonic Code, has a relatively low homicide, sexual
assault, assault but like Ontario it has a high robbery rate.
9-Provinces/Territories
with high numbers of indigenous peoples1 tend to be more immoral;
they have higher homicide and sexual assault rates. Robbery rates are not relatively
very high.
Sources:
1: The Yukon,
Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Manitoba all have relatively high
percentages of Indigenous peoples.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Psalms
Date: 1446-537 BC
Authors with Psalms attributed to: Moses (Psalm 90), Ethan the Ezraite (89), Heman with the sons of Korah (88) King Solomon (72 and 127), King David (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 28, 39, 40, 41, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 86, 95, 101, 103, 108, 109, 110, 122, 124, 131, 133, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144 and 145), Asaph (50, 73-83), the sons of Korah (42, 44-49, 84, 85, 87 and 88).
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Saturday, 6 February 2016
The Negroes' Complaint by William Cowper
FORCED from home and all its pleasures
Afric's coast I left forlorn,
To increase a stranger's treasures
O'er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though slave they have enrolled me,
Minds are never to be sold.
Still in thought as free as ever,
What are England's rights, I ask,
Me from my delights to sever,
Me to torture, me to task ?
Fleecy locks and black complexion
Cannot forfeit nature's claim;
Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.
Why did all-creating nature
Make the plant for which we toil?
Sighs must fan it, tears must water,
Sweat of ours must dress the soil.
Think, ye masters iron-hearted,
Lolling at your jovial boards,
Think how many backs have smarted
For the sweets your cane affords.
Is there, as ye sometimes tell us,
Is there One who reigns on high?
Has He bid you buy and sell us,
Speaking from his throne, the sky?
Ask him, if your knotted scourges,
Matches, blood-extorting screws,
Are the means that duty urges
Agents of his will to use?
Hark! He answers!--Wild tornadoes
Strewing yonder sea with wrecks,
Wasting towns, plantations, meadows,
Are the voice with which he speaks.
He, foreseeing what vexations
Afric's sons should undergo,
Fixed their tyrants' habitations
Where his whirlwinds answer--"No."
By our blood in Afric wasted
Ere our necks received the chain;
By the miseries that we tasted,
Crossing in your barks the main;
By our sufferings, since ye brought us
To the man-degrading mart,
All sustained by patience, taught us
Only by a broken heart;
Deem our nation brutes no longer,
Till some reason ye shall find
Worthier of regard and stronger
Than the colour of our kind.
Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings
Tarnish all your boasted powers,
Prove that you have human feelings,
Ere you proudly question ours!
Saturday, 30 January 2016
Sources on Peter
Contemporary eye-witnesses whose testimony is or may be included in the sources:
Paul, Luke, Mark and Clement.
Sources mentioning Peter:
The Gospel of Mark (chapters 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16)
The Gospel of Luke (chapters 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 22 and 24.)
The Gospel of Matthew (chapters 4, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26 and 28.
The Gospel of John (chapters 1, 6, 13, 18, 20 and 21.
Acts (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 15)
Galatians 2
First Letter of Peter
Second Letter of Peter
Letter of First Clement
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