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90% of catholics in ireland attended mass every week in 1984. in 2011, only 18% of them did. it got us thinking, if religious attitudes in historically pious ireland are changing so dramatically, what does the future hold for religion around the world? if you look at recent trends in the united states, the most christian nation in the world, religion is on the wane. according to a recent report from the pew research center, self-described christians dropped from 78.4% of the population to 70.6% of the population. a nearly eight-point drop in just seven years. the religiously unaffiliated, like atheists and agnostics, increased from 16.1% to 22.8% over that time. what's more, the decline in christians is happening across the board among the young and the old. blacks, whites, and latinos and