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Greetings, my friend, to the FUTURE!

By pharyngula on July 14, 2010.

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And here is a website that tells you everything that will happen…in the Future!

You may be excited to know that we have a specific date for the imminent demise of Christianity: 2240. It's all based on this very scientific graph.

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Yes, my friends, in the future we will be able to predict complex sociological phenomena from a short sample of data by fitting it to a straight line. We cannot do this today without gagging, but in the Future, it will be easy!

My friends, there is so much more. Before Christianity fades away so completely and so linearly, hunger and disease will be eradicated in 2200, you'll be able to upload your mind to a computer in 2220, and you'll be able to travel to nearby stars in your anti-matter fueled starship in 2230. Well-fed godless starfaring software minds for the win! For the Future!

Even greater wonders await us in 2300, when we become naked blue superhumans. In the FUUUUUUTUUUUUURE!

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