Fuck This "Xtian Nation" Shit!

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Darkstar, I wish your reasonable tone would get the thought it deserves, but it is my view that Lion knows that the data doesn't back him up. He won't admit it tho. Like so many believers, when reality and dogma collide; dogma wins,

What are you talking about...''the data doesnt back him up'' ?

All I was doing was posting factual data from the census results. The data backs itself up.

Numerical statistics dont have a ''reasonable tone''.

Not one person here has been able to demonstrate a falsehood in anything I posted.

Instead, we get lots of smoke screen verbiage and arm waving and filling up the thread with stuff (that doesnt even constitute falsification) in order to push my posts further back down the scroll where they wont get in the way.

Well done Darkstar, your ''reasonable tone'' has pacified your fellow atheists into mistakenly thinking that style trumps substance.

Here's the facts. (Substance)
Source : Same as I cited earlier. Nothings changed. (Facts are Facts.)

Total # Muslims up a massive 39.9% from 2006 (wonder if they support gay marriage?)

Total # Hindus up a massive 26.3% from 2006 (oh my gods!!!! How can you debunk that many?)

Total # Pentecostals up 8.4% from 2006.

Total # Christians in 2011 up 3.6% from 2006

Total # Catholics up 6.1% from 2006 Even after that relentless attack on pedophiles hiding in the clergy and still UP a massive 6.1% (The atheist attack seems to have gone quiet on that one. Hmm. Wonder why? Probably because of the blowback once people started hearing stories that theres ALSO tons of gutless ATHEISTS hiding in the clergy pretending to be priests.)

Buddhists up a massive 26.3% from 2006 (And you wonder why ''Old Atheists'' are deserting the ship for ''Atheism Plus'')

Speaking of Atheism Plus....

Is it my imagination or does this logo remind you of a road winding its way up a hill towards a Cross at the top?

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Are you still at this?
Now you seem to be using absolute numbers and then calculating the percentage of absolute increase.
Haven't you seen this is meaningless?
What has meaning is the relative percentage over the whole population.
Did you bother to see how many of those new believers in each religion are new immigrants?
Did you bother to apply the same reasoning to the "no religion" folks?
How do those "massive" increases compare to the total population? Or just to the total population within each religion?
Here's an example:
catholics:
2006 => 5126900
2011 => 5439200
ratio => 5439200/5126900 = 1.060914 ~6.1% (just like you claim)
difference => 5439200-5126900 = 312300

The calculations below don't directly represent a change during these years... it's just a ratio to put things in perspective.
312300 / 5439200(total catholics 2011) = 0.05741 ~5.74%
312300 / 21507700(total population 2011) = 0.01452 ~1.45%

If the "new catholics" represent 1.5% of the population, I wonder how "massive" this difference is for the other religions...?
Do the math, show me and yourself.