The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.
The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves?
That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed
has bled to death under our knives.
has bled to death under our knives.
Who will wipe this blood off us?
With what water could we purify ourselves?
What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?
Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?
Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) *the Gay Science*
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