2007-09-28 18:40:22 · 21 answers · asked by greg_mrcs 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so many people are losing their faith it is crazy
2007-09-30 08:24:55 · answer #1 · answered by thirtyrgv 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Difficult to answer, but Wiki gives it a good shot quoting studies done in the early 2000s.
"A 2005 survey published in Encyclopædia Britannica found that the non-religious make up about 11.9% of the world's population, and atheists about 2.3%. This figure does not include those who follow atheistic religions, such as some Buddhists.[88] A November–December 2006 poll published in the Financial Times gives rates for the United States and five European countries. It found that Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe in any form of God or Supreme Being (73%). Of the European adults surveyed, Italians are the most likely to express this belief (62%) and the French the least likely (27%). In France, 32% declared themselves atheists, and an additional 32% declared themselves agnostic.[89] An official European Union survey provides corresponding figures: 18% of the EU population do not believe in a god; 27% accept the existence of some supernatural "spiritual life force", while 52% affirm belief in a specific god."
2007-09-29 01:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am guessing that all of them do, never thought of the possibility of Atheist on the moon but hey it could be I guess if they have evolved to that!
2007-09-29 01:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by cowboy_christian_fellowship 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My guess would be around half a billion. Maybe as many as a billion if we include the ones who cannot or will not declare themselves.
2007-09-29 01:44:55 · answer #4 · answered by Scumspawn 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All of them.
Living in the world--the real world--is part of what being an atheist is all about.
2007-09-29 08:59:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In 2006 the estimate was 8.5 million Atheists worldwide...
2007-09-29 01:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Quite few. Most of them live on the world ... except for the rest who live on other planets, an dthe few who live in caves.
2007-09-29 01:45:04 · answer #7 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
300-800 million depending on how you define it
buddhists do not believe in any gods, if you count them you get the larger number
2007-09-29 01:44:04 · answer #8 · answered by Sheed 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
The number grows as we speak.
2007-09-29 01:46:36 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not as many as you'd think. Most people believe in at least something bigger than all of us.
2007-09-29 01:46:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
And what kind of atheists are they ?
2007-09-29 01:45:27 · answer #11 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋