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Regarding your nonbelieving minority: According to the news today about 25% of
all Norwegians believes in God...
DagT
Oh -- "minority of humans in modern times" was phrased badly. Initially
I said that the majority of humans -- that is, throughout all history
and all cultures -- tended to believe that there was a God (or gods.) So
the people who don't, represent a minority of all; but they seem to be
concentrated in this period of human history (i.e., "modern times.")
That said, Norway's not that big and isn't necessarily representative of
the whole world ... :D
True, but China is big and has a lot of buddhists and maybe still some
communists who don't believe in any god, and India also have its share of
buddhists, so maybe the US isn't representative either. In population the US is
the same size as Indonesia, and EU is about 50% larger... .-)
I didn't say anything about the US being representative.
However, since you've changed the subject (again) --
The majority of the US population believe in God. (I don't have the
statistics in front of me, but it's a substantial majority.) Indonesia
is predominantly a Moslem country, so presumably atheists and agnostics
aren't anything like a majority there. India, while having its share of
Buddhists, (as you noted) also holds significant numbers of Christians,
Moslems, Sikhs, various others I can't think of off the top of my head,
and the majority of Indians are Hindus. By definition, Christians,
Moslems and Sikhs believe in a God and Hindus believe in a lot of them.
No atheist or agnostic majority there, either. We still haven't finished
looking through Asia and haven't touched Africa yet ...
Agree with you about China.
Remember, in the post to which you replied, I was talking about *all*
people who believe there is a God or gods, of whatever religion.
