Sunday, November 4, 2012

Week 11



Well going through both the website I was surprised to see so many religions that I had never heard of. The most that I was taught in my religion class that I took last semester only mainly focused on Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islamic that’s were the most of all after going through the website and looking into the number of population following other religion were quite impressive. Some of the ones I never herds of are as follows:

  1. Christianity: 2.1 billion
  2. Islam: 1.5 billion
  3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
  4. Hinduism: 900 million
  5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
  6. Buddhism: 376 million
  7. primal-indigenous: 300 million
  8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
  9. Sikhism: 23 million
  10. Juche: 19 million
  11. Spiritism: 15 million
  12. Judaism: 14 million
  13. Baha'i: 7 million
  14. Jainism: 4.2 million
  15. Shinto: 4 million
  16. Cao Dai: 4 million
  17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
  18. Tenrikyo: 2 million
  19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million
  20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
  21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
  22. Scientology: 500 thousand

All this religions in this world that’s just great. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion that’s a huge amount of number shows that there are people who do not believe in the religion.

Do you think that our society, and/or the world, is secularizing, or not?

Yes, I think that our society and world is secularizing because people are moving out from different religions and belief as scientists are doing more progress. Modernization is taking over religions. If we go back and look at the list of religions according to the followers 1.1 billion are those who doesn’t believe in the religion and some call it superstitious.

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