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What's The Most Popular Religion? by Lovetinz(m): 7:25pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
Most religions, excluding Christianity, do not keep records of the number of followers. And even within Christianity there are differing ways of keeping count. Catholics will include everyone who has ever been baptized in a Catholic church, while most Protestant denomination count by actual church attendance. To make matters worse, oriental religions tend to blur at the edges of what they believe, so it is very possible that a person can be counted in more than one category. One can be grouped as both a Buddhist and a Shintoist in Japan, while in China, one can be a Confucian, a Taoist and a Buddhist all at once. Given these caveats, here's what the worldwide scorecard looks like. Christianity at about 1,955,229,000 members. This breaks down like so: Roman Catholics : 981,465,000 Protestants : 404,020,000 Orthodox : 218,350,000 Anglicans : 69,136,000 Other Christians : 282,258,000 Strangely enough, if you count it as religion, atheism is #2 at 1,782,809,000. Muslims come in a decent third at 1,126,325,000 (83% Sunnis, 16% Shi'ites, 1% other). The rest of the list: Hindus : 793,075,000 Buddhists : 325,275,000 Sikhs : 19,508,000 Jews : 13,968,000 Baha'is : 6,404,000 Confucians : 5,086,000 Jains : 4,620,000 Shintoists : 2,897,500 http://lovetinz.com/thread-500.html |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by justlove91(m): 8:01pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
Lovetinz: Hmmm... |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by beejaay: 11:30pm On Oct 05, 2014 |
The most popular religion is MONEYISM which means the worship money with 95% of the world population followers |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by Donfamous(m): 5:12am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Good to know |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by Punditdotcom: 6:46am On Nov 30, 2014 |
You seem to be looking at measures of the most commonly held religion. If you really meant most popular, you should look at how popular a religion is with people who are not members of it, but have positive or negative feelings about it. |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by tartar9(m): 2:47pm On Nov 30, 2014 |
which year is this.your statistics is outdated |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by Donfamous(m): 11:35am On Dec 01, 2014 |
tartar9:so which one is d latest? |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by Nobody: 1:14pm On Dec 01, 2014 |
Lots of souls for hell. Father keeps winning.. |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by tartar9(m): 2:57pm On Dec 01, 2014 |
Donfamous:go ask google |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by Donfamous(m): 5:13pm On Dec 01, 2014 |
tartar9:u're confused |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by tartar9(m): 2:48pm On Dec 02, 2014 |
Donfamous:guy,world population have increased by more than 1billion since when you bringing this decade old statistics. |
Re: What's The Most Popular Religion? by Donfamous(m): 7:14pm On Dec 02, 2014 |
tartar9:now I understand |
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