(October 10, 2017 at 9:51 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Brian37 Wrote:It isn't the biggest, who told you that? Islam is. But when you take into account all 7 billion humans, Christians and Muslims and Jews don't add up together to be the majority. "Other" when you include Buddhists and Hindus and Sikhs and all other small religions they constitute the bulk of our world population.
Islam is still number two, at around 1.8 billion compared to Christianity's 2.4 billion...though the number of Muslims is greater than the number of Catholics or Protestants, Christians tend to be lumpers when estimating their numbers and count Catholics and Protestants together to get the number of Christians. The Abrahamic religions combined are about 55% of the world's population (23.2% Muslims, 31.5% Christians, and maybe 1% Jews).
'Irreligion' is 16.3%, more than Hinduism (15%) or Buddhism (7.1%).
1.8 billion is still less than 7 billion and 2. 5 billion is still less than 7 billion.
What I do know is that both the head characters stem from Abraham and funny that, nobody outside Mesopotamia heard of either until HUMANS spread them.
It can't be that the God of Jews and Christians and Muslims ARE THE SAME DAMNED character. It cant be that all of them arose out of each other, and monotheism arose out of prior polytheism.
I will say this. I find it extremely hard to swallow the logic of "all powerful" if the best this alleged being is to leave humans for 200,000 years in ignorance, only to wait 10,000 years ago to get to writing, and even after that the tribes sill murder each other over the competing gang manuals to this day. Sounds totally efficient.
