Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Anyone else dislike the use of the word "karma"? [View all]Duppers
(28,120 posts)This is DU's ATHEIST forum, btw.
According to a 2015 international survey data, reported by Keysar & Navarro-Rivera in the Oxford Handbook of Atheism, there are approximately 450-500 million non-believers in God worldwide, which amounts to about 7% of the global adult population.
According to the Pew Research Center, if that category is broadened to include all non-religious people in general those unaffiliated adults who do not identify with any religion were talking 1.1 billion people, which equals about 16.5% of the global adult population.
As such, non-religious is actually the 3rd largest group of thought on religion in the world, coming only behind Christianity (in first place) and Islam (in second).
Thus, there are more secular men and women on planet earth many of whom are atheists and agnostics than there are Hindus, Buddhists, Mormons, Sikhs, Jains, or Jews.
That said, numbers have little to do with reason and logic!
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