Religions of the World Statistics:
"Christians 33.03% (of which Roman Catholics 17.33%, Protestants 5.8%, Orthodox 3.42%, Anglicans 1.23%), Muslims 20.12%, Hindus 13.34%, Buddhists 5.89%, Sikhs 0.39%, Jews 0.23%, other religions 12.61%, non-religious 12.03%, atheists 2.36% (2004 est.)" -CIA World Fact Book
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#People
2007-04-24 15:40:52 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Atheists have a faith, non-religious probably don't give the matter much thought.
2007-04-24 15:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
see the question i have posted :"atheism " doesn't necessarily mean "not religious".
according to the oxford dictionary :atheism=non belief in God
since most people of the English speaking world are christians,they assume that if u don't believe in God, u don't have a religion. that's not true.Buddhists don't believe in God but they do have a religion.
technically speaking though,Buddhism would be a philosophy. but according to usage it's a religion.e.g.if u ask a Buddhist what religion he's from hed say "i'm a Buddhist"
anyway,to cut a long story short,people who are not religious should be called "people who are not religious" because u can't ASSUME that a person who doesn't believe in God,doesn't have a religion.it's a common misconception
2007-04-24 18:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You perhaps will like to ask CIA why the misinterpretation......
Anyway, SOME atheists has religion, just these religion does not believe in a god at all, I guess what CIA means might be these type of atheist religion.
2007-04-24 15:59:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 archaic : UNGODLINESS, WICKEDNESS
2 a : a disbelief in the existence of deity b : the doctrine that there is no deity
That is atheism by definition of Merriam-Webster. Non-Religious obviously must mean a person who does not believe in religion or mystical things. An atheist is someone who does not believe in gods.
2007-04-24 15:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by blly_dr 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you want to say that the CIA is the final say on religion? That is a pretty weird assertion. It isn't their specialty at all.
2007-04-24 15:48:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
News flash Buddhism is not a religion either!
Yet there is a catagory for that!
The list you have there is of philosophical ideas. Non religious is NOT a religion either!
2007-04-24 15:48:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Non-religious would be those people who don't care one way or the other. Atheists DO care enough to label themselves. It is NOT a religion.
Nice try at TRYING to use reason and logic, though. Kudos to you.
2007-04-24 15:48:29 · answer #7 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the people who designed the study set it up that way?
They aren't the Final Authority in whether or not "Atheism" is a religion dear-heart!
2007-04-24 15:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Rolls eyes.
2007-04-24 15:56:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For statistics that include all humans that inhabit the planet.
2007-04-24 15:44:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Non religious in this context means they believe in God but don't belong to any particular religion or belong to a religion but are not practicing.
2007-04-24 15:44:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋