JWs will happily tell you that, just before Armageddon, all the nations of the world will turn on religion. But notice the article below, it actually says that everyone at that time (except JWs) will be atheists!
Can anyone accept the concept of a worldwide conversion to atheism?
*** w81 8/1 p. 29 Will God Execute the Wicked? Habakkuk Answers Yes! ***
Jehovah?s people can have confidence that he will come to their rescue at the war of Armageddon. The worshipers of Jehovah at that time will be under international attack by all the worldly nations, all of which are by then atheistic. Why are they atheistic? Because the nations will have turned against organized false religion and will have wiped it from the face of the earth. Thus this attack on God?s true worshipers takes place after the surprising destruction of "Babylon the Great," the world empire of false religion, including Christendom. (Rev. 17:1-5, 16-18) The irreligious nations that will have brought about this destruction will then concentrate on trying to wipe out from the earth the pure worship of the one living and true God, Jehovah. Even now the stage is being set for this destruction of organized false religion. Some nations, in fact, have already announced their aim to promote atheism.*
The footnote reads:
Says the National Geographic of October 1980: "Other Communist countries curb religion; Albania forbids it, proclaiming itself in 1967 ?the first atheistic state in the world.? All 2,169 mosques, churches, monasteries, and other ?centers of obscurantism and mysticism? have been closed, torn down, or transformed into recreation centers, clinics, warehouses, or stables. . . . Albania?s new generation knows only atheism."
Also, Time magazine of November 17, 1980, said about Cambodia, now called Kampuchea: "The Khmer Rouge began methodical destruction of every vestige of religion. Christian ministers were slaughtered and Muslim mosques destroyed. The greatest indignities, however, were reserved for Buddhists, who constituted 90% of Kampuchea?s population. Insurgents fresh from the jungle looted the country?s 2,800 temples. ?Buddhas were thrown into rivers or used as firewood,? recalls Oum Soum, 62, deputy director of Phnom-Penh?s Buddhist Institute. ?Wats [temples] not destroyed became fertilizer warehouses.? Bonzes [monks] were denounced as ?parasites.? The lucky ones were merely driven from their temples into the fields. Of 80,000 Cambodian monks, 50,000 were murdered."?P. 90.
23 years and Ah, the times they are a changin'...
Albania: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Albania reports a 100% religious demographic
Since the occupation by the Ottomans, the majority of Albanians have been Muslim (70%), even though religion was prohibited during the communist era. The Eastern Orthodox (20%) and Catholic Church (10%) are the other main religions in Albania.
Cambodia: http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/cambodia/pro-religion.htm reports over 90% are religious
Theravada Buddhism is practiced by over 90 percent of Cambodia's population, and is also the major religion in other Southeast Asian nations.
Buddhism arrived in Cambodia during the first centuries A.D. Mahayana Buddhism was the dominant religion but was slowly replaced by Theravada after the 14th century. During the Khmer Rouge era (1975-1979), most of Cambodia's Buddhist monks were murdered and most of the wats were destroyed. Other religions to be found in Cambodia include Islam and Catholicism.