One in six worldwide has no religion

[Misfit]

http://rt.com/news/worldwide-religio...ted-study-332/

#According to a report conducted by ‘The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’ the largest religious group is represented by Christians with 2.2 billion people (32% of the world’s population), second largest – Muslims with 1.6 billion people (23%), placing the religiously unaffiliated group in third place with 1.1 billion ( 16%) , followed by 1 billion Hindus (15%), nearly 500 million Buddhists (7%) and 14 million Jews (0.2%). The figures relate to 2010.

People who practice folk or traditional religions are estimated at 400 million ( 6%) , while approximately 58 million people ( 1%) belong to other religions, such as the Baha'i faith, Jainism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Tenrikyo, Wicca and Zoroastrianism.

[hotcoffee]

Does Unafiliated include people who are agnostic or those who don't go to church but believe there is God?

I couldn't tell how it unafiliated was defined....

[TNRabbit]

So that means that @ 80% of the world have "an invisible friend?"

....unbeleivable....

[cheezgrits]

Originally Posted by hotcoffee

Does Unafiliated include people who are agnostic or those who don't go to church but believe there is God?

I couldn't tell how it unafiliated was defined....

I think it means someone like me. No organized or established church or religion, but a believer in a Creator.

[PsyOps (Premo)]

Originally Posted by TNRabbit

So that means that @ 80% of the world have "an invisible friend?"

....unbeleivable....

Feeling outnumbered?

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by TNRabbit

So that means that @ 80% of the world have "an invisible friend?"

....unbeleivable....

That's why we have a constitution that protects freedom of religion, speech, right to keep and bear arms, a nice collection of rather important individual rights to protect us from one another.