Here's a link for you. This was as of 2005.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
2007-02-25 08:58:12
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answered by Anonymous
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According to the CIA, the world's population breaks down like this:
33% Christian
20% Muslim
13% Hindu
6% Buddhist
0.4% Sikh
0.23% Jewish
13% Other religions
14% Atheist or otherwise Non-religious
2007-02-25 09:08:29
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answered by marbledog 6
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The numbers vary widely because of how the question is worded will swing it 20% in either direction. Most of the data puts it around 16% non-religious in the US and more in Europe.
2007-02-25 08:59:34
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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nicely, it extremely is like this - you're 13. Your mum and dad could make you bypass to church. it extremely is the undesirable information. I wish there have been some regulations conserving the rights of childrens to coach faith as they see greater healthful, yet so a ways there are not. possibly sooner or later, there will be an age, say 12 or 13, whilst a newborn can say, "howdy look, i do no longer desire to try this," and the mummy and dad heavily isn't waiting to tension him. For now, we ought to consistently handle the fact we've. i'm unlikely to propose you "come out" as an atheist, and that i'm unlikely to propose you nevertheless be silent, the two... for some reasons. First, because of fact i don't comprehend the two you or your loved ones, I could assume the worst of your loved ones's reaction. babies have been kicked out, disowned, and bodily abused over much less. i can not in solid judgment of right and incorrect inform you, "particular, you may come out," because of fact of that. 2nd, i think of it extremely is substantial that in case you do tell your loved ones, you do it on account which you experience it extremely is the your best option part of do, and interior the your best option time and place for you... and not because of fact I informed you so. What suggestion i visit supply you is this - I propose which you start up working the subject rely into communication. throughout information casts approximately faith, ask what they think of. throughout conversations approximately atheism or faith, ask what they think of. Any time you get an danger to artwork atheism or the flaws of religion right into a communication in a *organic and non-confrontational way*, take the possibility. this might assist you to gauge what the reaction of your loved ones would be. in case then you experience delicate telling them you're an atheist, by all potential, gain this. yet once you do no longer, then it extremely is completely ok so you might attend till you're sufficiently previous to no longer could count upon them. interior the intervening time, in basic terms bear in mind which you would be able to consistently take part in boards, or write blogs, or make video clips, or shop a mag as strategies of expressing your self... and bear in mind that your mum and dad could make your physique be in a definite place, yet they might by no potential tension your ideas to bypass everywhere you do no longer desire it to bypass. i've got self assurance extremely badly for you, and that i'm hoping issues artwork out as you may desire them to.
2016-11-25 22:53:21
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answered by ? 4
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That adherents link was pretty good:
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
wikipedia also has a decent article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
2007-02-25 09:04:53
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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I think you're going to have to explain your question a little better.
2007-02-25 09:04:44
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answered by Anonymous
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What an idiot (The first answerer)... I agree completely, but he spelled "sentence" wrong!!
2007-02-25 09:00:12
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answered by Anonymous
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what are you asking? Do you know how to write a coherent sentence?
2007-02-25 08:57:19
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answered by plferia 3
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