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To: highlander_UW
Top 12 world religions by population:

Christianity: 2.1 billion
   (Catholics: 1.07 billion)
Islam: 1.3 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
primal-indigenous: 300 million
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million

165 posted on 11/07/2005 1:29:54 PM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Coyoteman

"Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
"

Wow! We're third on the list. Amazing. We're almost as many as the Muslims. And a larger group than the Roman Catholics. I guess we're mainstream, then.


186 posted on 11/07/2005 1:36:34 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Coyoteman
Top 12 world religions by population: Christianity: 2.1 billion (Catholics: 1.07 billion)

This statistic would support what I stated, thanks. However, my real point was really more focused on the term Christian and not specifically the emphasis on religion. For each "religion" there is a good deal of nominal (in name only) adherents. In many places people do not take any faith serious but someone builds a church or mosque and proclaims all the inhabitants as adherents to that group all of a sudden...but no real change has taken place in the person (in the case of Christianity) or awareness of their inclusion in that religion (in the case of other religions such as Islam).

249 posted on 11/07/2005 2:06:52 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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