Well...it seems that the percentage(s) of those two groups are growing very rapidly. What is the percentage of each now? And what will be their percentage in 20 years from now?
2007-01-27 08:49:04 · 14 answers · asked by Mehmet Azk 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to the Cambridge Companion to Atheism—edited by Michael Martin, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK (2005), from 3 to 9 percent of the U.S. population falls into the category of atheists, agnostics and nonbelievers in a god. It’s a modest percentage compared to most modern states (even at the high end) but still amounts to a sizable number of people, from almost 9 million to almost 27 million individuals.
For the year 2000, David B. Barrett (Encyclopedia Britannica and World Christian Encyclopedia, 2001) classified 150,089,508 (2.5% of world's population) as atheists, and 768,158,954 people as "Nonreligious" (12.7% of the world) for a total of 918,248,462 (15.2% of the world). These calculations by Barrett include all agnostics and others in our "Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist" category. Our figure of 1.1 billion in this category is considerably higher, and takes into consideration Zuckerman's analysis as well. Of the people in this grouping, it is estimated that 40 to 50% have a stated traditionally "theistic" belief in God, deities or a Higher Power.
God Bless You
2007-01-27 09:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though I cannot give you specific statistics, I know that non-Christians make up far more of the world's population than Christians do. There are a lot of atheists & agnostics in Europe, and it might be interesting to point out how much lower their rates of rape and hate crimes are than in America. They aren't so uptight, in other words, and allow each other to simply live their own lives.
I think things will crack at some point and there will be a war between Christians and the rest of the world. Bush already started it.
2007-01-27 09:04:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 04:44:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard recently that atheists are at 5% in the U.S., which is insane to me, since almost everyone I know is Atheist.
2007-01-27 08:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by mina_lumina 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The percentage is much higher in European countries than in the US. Remember, we got stuck with the religious zealots as "founding" our country... thanks Europe... hehe.
2007-01-27 08:57:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
28%
74% of all statistics are made up.
2007-01-27 08:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have every right to have unbelief. Most Christians are confusing.
2007-01-27 08:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by Cyber 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Very few of us are left, unfortunately.
Maybe 10% at most.
2007-01-27 08:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I certainly hope we continue to move out of the dark ages.
2007-01-27 08:54:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Growing? We can only hope.
2007-01-27 08:52:30 · answer #10 · answered by fifimsp1 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋