04 December 2003 at 00.14.53 ZuluTime
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Posted by Baron Greenback [216.54.16.166 - ip-216-54-16-166.coxfiber.net] on 04 December 2003 at 00.14.53 ZuluTime:
In Reply to: Christianity is huge and Animal Rights is a religion. posted by Jurassosaurus on 30 November 2003 at 02.01.53 ZuluTime:
Given...
Chinese traditional religion: In older world religion books the estimates of the total number of adherents of Confucianism range up to 350 million. Other books, including older versions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, have listed Chinese religionists under "Taoism," with adherent estimates up to about 200 million. But these figures are all based on counts of the same segment of Chinese people throughout the world -- people practicing what is, sociologically, more accurately called Chinese traditional religion, and often called Chinese folk religion. The word "traditional" is preferable to "folk" because "folk" might imply only the local, tribal customs and beliefs such as ancestor worship and nature beliefs. But "Chinese traditional religion" is meant to categorize the common religion of the majority Chinese culture: a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as the traditional non-scriptural/local practices and beliefs. For most religious Chinese who do not explicitly follow a different religion such as Islam or Christianity, these different ancient Chinese philosophies and traditions form a single, seamless composite religious culture and worldview.
, and given the fact that Hinduism isn't strictly monotheistic, it would appear that the number of people that "don't believe in god" actually outnumber the number of those that do. Just an observation