It amazes me that 75% of the world is still completely dillusional
hjadams123 on
I am of the “try not to be an asshole” religion.
rosbif82 on
0.01B Jews = 10M. What?? That doesn’t seem right.
Anyway, yeah. Billions of delusional people. Oh well.
scolbert08 on
Is Buddhism a dying religion?
DocTam on
Should the Chinese data be taken seriously given the CCPs relationship with religious groups?
burn_this_account_up on
Islam coming up fast in Christians’ rear view mirror
Miserable-Lawyer-233 on
But the Jews are Nazis according to the left.
swazal on
But how many of those Christians are Catholics?
/s
ApprehensiveClub6028 on
now show year over year change per country
ZealousidealNoise601 on
Got to boost that religiously unaffiliated group a lot more
Echo127 on
I had no idea Jews were that rare.
Reasonable_Fold6492 on
How does one even know that person is relgious or not? I have a danish friend who says she is protestant yet she is bisexual and prayed to a korean spirit God. Yet she refused to pray to Buddha since according to her she was still a Christian. Also I have met so many Irish catholic who says they are catholic yet almost never goes to church. Are they relgious?
In korea there was a politician that said he was atheist yet he spent millions of dollars to buy a room that was supposed to give him good luck according to daoism. When I was in turkey all of the korean tourist despite saying they have no relgion went the mosque and prayed to all hoping for good luck. Is this relgious?
Simlar thing with Indian friend who says he isn’t hindu or french friend that’s says he isn’t catholic yet they go to temple or church multiple times a weak.
Even trying to know what a relgious person is hard. I do not trust this graph.
ajtrns on
disaffected sub-saharan african teens gonna be a huge demographic right about now.
Nyssava on
It should be said, in my experience the majority of Chinese people follow the Chinese folk religion, which the CCP pretends doesn’t exist and doesn’t officially measure.
It’s a very interesting belief system that’s extremely understudied because of the government.
gbbmiler on
Jews who do nothing associated with Judaism all year but do a fancy dinner with their family for Passover are generally listed as “Jewish”.
Christians who do nothing associated with Christianity all year but do a fancy dinner with their family for Christmas are generally listed as “religiously unaffiliated”.
People forget about the cultural water they swim in. I think the number of people who truly have no affiliation with religion is lower than these numbers suggest, and the number who have no spiritual commitments to their religion is probably higher than these numbers suggest.
pokeyporcupine on
Rooting for the horse in third
Dragoeth1 on
Data for China is a wild estimate from pew research btw. Officially they haven’t surveyed anyone there and instead scrubbed data from other sources. Their own data says their estimate for people who are religious is between 10-50% while saying it’s impossible to be accurate due to cultural differences, language interpretation of the word “religion”, government restrictions on religion, and so forth. In the same data they say 33% of Chinese people believe in Buddha and bodhisattva and that they influence the world.
VeganCappy on
Statists are the world’s largest religious group. Also, the most destructive religion.
mywholefuckinglife on
I’m struggling to not read the first image as saying (on the right) that Christianity saw an increase of 121.6M (million) meaning 121.6 million million people, while the other religions saw only hundreds or dozens of millions
Capt-J- on
Just think: no matter which specific religion, or indeed special branch of that main religion, someone might follow; the obsolete vast majority of everyone else in the world disagrees with you and does not believe what you believe.
ale_93113 on
There is one problem with this methodology
It is consistent, yes, which matters when you have to count THE ENTIRE PLANET
But changing your religion in the census, specially if you are no longer religious, is not usually done
Case in point: Turkey has nearly 0% official atheists/non religiously affiliated, while it has a significant non religious population, that’s many millions of non affiliated not being counted there
Same thing happens on most countries, India has virtually no religiously unaffiliated, but in reality India has millions of non believers
LogicalJudgement on
I mean. The CCP hates religion, this makes sense for them to be low.
Jebusfreek666 on
Jews make up only 0.2% of the world population? That feels like it has to be wrong….
JustinUrHead on
Christianity is the easiest to join. You can pretty much stumble into a church and you become Christian.
VoceDiDio on
I know proselytizing is frowned on but I can’t help it. I’m pretty excited to see an Unaffiliated-Dominant World™!
G0ldheart on
The numbers are pretty questionable. Is there actually some kind of world wide reliable census that asks for religion status? What determines if a person is religious and which religion precisely? How many are agnostic? Atheist?
If religiously unaffiliated is atheism, it seems like that is growing at more than twice the Christianity rate per these records.
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It amazes me that 75% of the world is still completely dillusional
I am of the “try not to be an asshole” religion.
0.01B Jews = 10M. What?? That doesn’t seem right.
Anyway, yeah. Billions of delusional people. Oh well.
Is Buddhism a dying religion?
Should the Chinese data be taken seriously given the CCPs relationship with religious groups?
Islam coming up fast in Christians’ rear view mirror
But the Jews are Nazis according to the left.
But how many of those Christians are Catholics?
/s
now show year over year change per country
Got to boost that religiously unaffiliated group a lot more
I had no idea Jews were that rare.
How does one even know that person is relgious or not? I have a danish friend who says she is protestant yet she is bisexual and prayed to a korean spirit God. Yet she refused to pray to Buddha since according to her she was still a Christian. Also I have met so many Irish catholic who says they are catholic yet almost never goes to church. Are they relgious?
In korea there was a politician that said he was atheist yet he spent millions of dollars to buy a room that was supposed to give him good luck according to daoism. When I was in turkey all of the korean tourist despite saying they have no relgion went the mosque and prayed to all hoping for good luck. Is this relgious?
Simlar thing with Indian friend who says he isn’t hindu or french friend that’s says he isn’t catholic yet they go to temple or church multiple times a weak.
Even trying to know what a relgious person is hard. I do not trust this graph.
disaffected sub-saharan african teens gonna be a huge demographic right about now.
It should be said, in my experience the majority of Chinese people follow the Chinese folk religion, which the CCP pretends doesn’t exist and doesn’t officially measure.
It’s a very interesting belief system that’s extremely understudied because of the government.
Jews who do nothing associated with Judaism all year but do a fancy dinner with their family for Passover are generally listed as “Jewish”.
Christians who do nothing associated with Christianity all year but do a fancy dinner with their family for Christmas are generally listed as “religiously unaffiliated”.
People forget about the cultural water they swim in. I think the number of people who truly have no affiliation with religion is lower than these numbers suggest, and the number who have no spiritual commitments to their religion is probably higher than these numbers suggest.
Rooting for the horse in third
Data for China is a wild estimate from pew research btw. Officially they haven’t surveyed anyone there and instead scrubbed data from other sources. Their own data says their estimate for people who are religious is between 10-50% while saying it’s impossible to be accurate due to cultural differences, language interpretation of the word “religion”, government restrictions on religion, and so forth. In the same data they say 33% of Chinese people believe in Buddha and bodhisattva and that they influence the world.
Statists are the world’s largest religious group. Also, the most destructive religion.
I’m struggling to not read the first image as saying (on the right) that Christianity saw an increase of 121.6M (million) meaning 121.6 million million people, while the other religions saw only hundreds or dozens of millions
Just think: no matter which specific religion, or indeed special branch of that main religion, someone might follow; the obsolete vast majority of everyone else in the world disagrees with you and does not believe what you believe.
There is one problem with this methodology
It is consistent, yes, which matters when you have to count THE ENTIRE PLANET
But changing your religion in the census, specially if you are no longer religious, is not usually done
Case in point: Turkey has nearly 0% official atheists/non religiously affiliated, while it has a significant non religious population, that’s many millions of non affiliated not being counted there
Same thing happens on most countries, India has virtually no religiously unaffiliated, but in reality India has millions of non believers
I mean. The CCP hates religion, this makes sense for them to be low.
Jews make up only 0.2% of the world population? That feels like it has to be wrong….
Christianity is the easiest to join. You can pretty much stumble into a church and you become Christian.
I know proselytizing is frowned on but I can’t help it. I’m pretty excited to see an Unaffiliated-Dominant World™!
The numbers are pretty questionable. Is there actually some kind of world wide reliable census that asks for religion status? What determines if a person is religious and which religion precisely? How many are agnostic? Atheist?
If religiously unaffiliated is atheism, it seems like that is growing at more than twice the Christianity rate per these records.