Just over 100 years ago, Europe was considered the center of the Christian world. With the bastions of the Anglican Church in Britain, the Vatican in Italy, and the original home of Calvinism, Baptism, and other major sects on the continent, Europe was clearly the most Christian place on earth. However, things have changed.

Today, the Western Hemisphere is home to more than a third of the world's Christians. The largest populations reside in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Christians make up about a third of the world's population, which is about the same percentage that they were a century ago. A new Pew poll finds that the locations of this third have changed. In addition to being prevelent in the Americas, China has taken its place as being one of the top ten Christian countries with a population approaching 70 million. Sub Saharan Africa has also seen a huge growth in Christian numbers. Since 1910, the region has grown from 9 million of the faithful to about 516 million. Three of the top ten Christian countries in the world are in this area.

The report also says that 50% of Christians are Catholic, 37% are protestant, and 12% are Orthodox. The remaining percentage belong to other sects such as Mormonism. The Pew Forum investigated 232 countries and territories to discover their findings. The poll does not, however, measure the level or intensity of the faith, it merely counts those who identify as the faithful. We can expect that the number also ignores those who refuse to openly identify as Christians due to persecution and other tragedies.

In contrast to the 2.2 billion Christians around the world, there are also 1.6 billion people who identify as Muslim. This means that about a third of the world is Christian and a quarter is Muslim, which are incredibly staggering numbers considering the estimated world population of 6.9 billion people.

thanks to colonialism

And also home to world most unprovable illusion






You wouldn't believe it… but having no religious affiliation is now world's third biggest 'faith' after Christianity and Islam.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250096/You-wouldnt-believe-atheism-worlds-biggest-faith-Christianity-Islam.html


Growing faster than wild fire, more than two than Christianity.

tartar9:
thanks to colonialism

What's there about colonialism in this contest

Brought foreign god/s to us takes the credit of your thanks.

Religiosity in Britain is dying as almost one in five British people now identifies themselves as atheist, a poll for The Times has found.

The poll, made in conjunction with YouGov, surveyed 1,550 adults. It found 19 percent identify themselves as atheists, 7 percent as “agnostic” and 3 percent as “humanist.”

In contrast, 49 percent identified themselves as Christian, while 42 percent said they had “no religion”they directly identified with.

The poll is one of the first to measure the number of self-identifying atheists in the UK, while previous studies had simply measured the number of people who believed in “God” against those who didn’t.

https://richarddawkins.net/2015/02/losing-faith-atheism-rising-in-britain-poll-suggests/

Religion and belief: some surveys and statistics -

According to the 2011 UK Census, those of no religion are the second largest belief group, about three and a half times as many as all the non-Christian religions put together – at 26.13% of the population. 16,038,229 people said they had ‘no religion’ with a further 4,406,032 (7.18%) not stating a religion. 58.81% described their religion as Christian and 7.88% as some non-Christian religion. This represented a massive change from the 2001 Census, where 15.5% of the population recorded having no religion, and 72% of the population reported being Christian.

However, in a poll conducted by YouGov in March 2011 on behalf of the BHA, when asked the census question ‘What is your religion?’, 61% of people in England and Wales ticked a religious box (53.48% Christian and 7.22% other) while 39% ticked ‘No religion’. When the same sample was asked the follow-up question ‘Are you religious?’, only 29% of the same people said ‘Yes’ while 65% said ‘No’, meaning over half of those whom the census would count as having a religion said they were not religious.

Less than half (48%) of those who ticked ‘Christian’ said they believed that Jesus Christ was a real person who died and came back to life and was the son of God.

Asked when they had last attended a place of worship for religious reasons, most people in England and Wales (63%) had not attended in the past year: 43% of people last attended over a year ago and 20% of people had never attended. Only 9% of people reported having attended a place of worship within the last week.

The Humanist Society of Scotland commissioned a separate poll asking the Scottish census question, ‘What religion, religious denomination or body do you belong to?’. In response, 42% of the adult population in Scotland said ‘None’.

When asked ‘Are you religious?’ 56% of the same sample said they were not and only 35% said they were.

See our 2011 Census Campaign for a fairer, more accurate census on belief in Britain.

Other surveys and polls on religion and belief in the UK

In the UK, the percentage of the population which describes itself as belonging to no religion has risen from 31.4% to 50.6% between 1983 and 2013 according to the British Social Attitudes Survey’s 31st report issued in 2014. Among people aged between 15 and 24, the incidence of religious affiliation is only 30.7%. It is only amongst the over 55s that the majority of respondents are religious.

Conversely, the report found that only 41.7% of people in the UK identify as Christians compared to 49.9% in 2008 and 65.2% in 1983. The Church of England has seen the greatest decline in its numbers; membership has more than halved from 40.3% of the population in 1983 to just 16.3% in 2014.

A 2014 YouGov poll found that 77% of the population did not consider themselves to be religious, including the 40% who said they were not religious at all.

Religiosity is particularly on the wane amongst young people. A 2013 YouGov poll found that only 25% of 16-24 year olds believe in God, whilst 38% do not believe in either God or a greater spiritual power. The same study found that only 12% of young people pronounced themselves as being influenced by religious leaders.

An Ipsos MORI poll, published in January 2007 for the British Humanist Association indicated that 36% of people – equivalent to around 17 million adults – are in fact humanist in their basic outlook.

Another question found that 41% endorsed the strong statement: ‘This life is the only life we have and death is the end of our personal existence’. 62% chose ‘Human nature by itself gives us an understanding of what is right and wrong’, against 27% who said ‘People need religious teachings in order to understand what is right and wrong’.

In the 2007-08 Citizenship Survey, participants were requested to select factors that they regarded as important to their identity from thirteen options. Whilst family was top with 97%, followed by interests (87%), religion ranked bottom at 48%. Religion ranked bottom consistently with all age groups up to 65+, where it only moves up to eleventh. Christians ranked religion as thirteenth as a factor important to their identity.

Church attendance in the UK

The 2014 British Social Attitudes Survey found that 58.4% of the population never attend religious services while only 13.1% of people report going to a religious service once a week or more. Of the 16% of people who define as belonging to the Church of England, 51.9% never attend services and in fact only 10.7% of people who identify with the Church of England report attending church at least weekly. More generally, the 2014 BSA Survey discovered that 58.3% of people who were brought up in a religion never attend services, and only 12.8% do so on a weekly basis.

However, self-reported Church attendance is invariably higher than actual recorded attendance.

According to Religious Trends No 7 published by Christian Research, overall church attendance in the United Kingdom diminished rapidly from 1980 to 2005 in both proportional and real terms.

In 1980 5,201,300 people, representing 11.1% of the UK population, attended Church on a given Sunday, but by 2005 this number had reduced to 3,166,200, equating to 6.3% of the UK population. By 2015, the level of church attendance in the UK is predicted to fall to 3,081,500 people, or 5% of the population.

The Church of England’s own attendance figures also attest to decline; in 2012 average Sunday attendance figures were just 800 000, half the number that attended in 1968 and significantly lower than the 2002 figure of 1 005 000.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=1KdnVbGPAoKqU8PFg6gI&url=https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-belief-some-surveys-and-statistics/&ved=0CCoQFjAD&usg=AFQjCNHbQwyH5RQ0O_-X-BszBywPUOIEfA&sig2=rpmHlXlzKvKHZTQBJC12yg

Tell me why the people that actually colonized and brought Christianity to us are now leaving it to us poor african that are so gullible?.

Whenever you find the answers to this, you are on track of emancipating yourself from delusion.

menesheh:


Tell me why the people that actually colonized and brought Christianity to us are now leaving it to us poor african that are so gullible?.

Whenever you find the answers to this, you are on track of emancipating yourself from delusion.

Thanks to societal freedoms, its now gay rights and gay marriage.
So those that brough us Christianity (the British) are also abandoning the tradition of marriage as MAN to WOMAN and embracing GAY marriages. So should we also follow suite?

NumberOne2:


Thanks to societal freedoms, its now gay rights and gay marriage.
So those that brough us Christianity (the British) are also abandoning the tradition of marriage as MAN to WOMAN and embracing GAY marriages. So should we also follow suite?

What's wrong with gay marriage. You are jumping from one unanswered question to another.

What modern morals and ethnics entails are those acts capable of inflicting harm to another human cum animal in noticeable manner whether physical or emotional. Living things (especially animals than plant) always respond negatively to impulses of harm eg taking your hand near fire will make you respond negatively than having sex.
So gay will never harm me or you so far as the two or more that engage in such act don't interfere with my or your wellbeing. Also as far the act don't harm,kill or becomes a health hazard to them(the perpetrators) and others not involve.

Better start now to reconfigure your mindset and reasoning method to suit with 21st century morals rather than resorting to stone age mythical morals book to guarding you on what's right and wrong.

menesheh:


What's wrong with gay marriage. You are jumping from one unanswered question to another.

What modern morals and ethnics entails are those acts capable of inflicting harm to another human cum animal in noticeable manner whether physical of emotional. Living things (especially animals than plant) always respond negatively to impulses of harm eg taking your hand near fire will make you respond negatively than having sex.
So gay will never harm me or you so far as the two or more that engage in such act don't interfere with my or your wellbeing. Also as far the act don't harm,kill or becomes a health hazard to them(the perpetrators) and others not involve.

Better start now to reconfigure your mindset and reasoning method to suit with 21st century morals rather than resorting to stone age mythical morals book to guarding you on what's right and wrong.

Refering to the BOLDED above:
I am not jumping questions. I am showing how faulty your argument is. You want us to abandon religion like the British. So should we adopt gay marriages like them?

If both your parents were GAY where will you be?. Rubbish. Even two same sex DOGS or RATS know better, it is humans like you (in the name of rights and freedom) that think same sex intercourse or marriage is SANE. Keep worshiping the white man all in the name of modernization. I weep for you.

You talk of harm. So what harm has Christianity done to you?

NumberOne2:


Refering to the BOLDED above:
I am not jumping questions. I am showing how faulty your argument is. You want us to abandon religion like the British. So should we adopt gay marriages like them?

If both your parents were GAY where will you be?. Rubbish. Even two same sex DOGS or RATS know better, it is humans like you (in the name of rights and freedom) that think same sex intercourse or marriage is SANE. Keep worshiping the white man all in the name of modernization. I weep for you.

You talk of harm. So what harm has Christianity done to you?

Naivety