Lay Theism

I thought this was pretty clever…

I pulled it from http://suitemindcrime.livejournal.com/ but their comment interface requires a LiveJournal ID…  won’t be getting one of those. 

At any rate, thanks, Self Spirit from TN.  I like your style.

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Nice work, xkcd:

(Translation for the blind)

Claims of supernatural powers:
Confirmed by experiment — 0
Refuted by experiment — all the rest

James Randi would be proud.

Keep up the good work.

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I thought I would try something here…

A Belief-o-meter!  Let me know if you think I have it close.  I’m afraid I may have the labels all wrong.  And where do Televangelists go?  What about that Catholic girl you knew in high school that smoked weed and screwed everything in sight, but confessed weekly?

So, basically, Atheist = Absolute Zero and the real nutballs that would kill or die strictly for their religious dogma (vs. say dying for freedom or liberty) would be, for example, Islamic Jihadists = 100.  Then you have all the zombies in between… the folks that go through life never really questioning the odd traditions that they were brought up with.  The Sunday/Wednesday Christians (very popular with the Southern Baptists), the Cussin’ Christians (it’s OK to say ‘Fuck’… WHAT!?  It’s just a word.  It’s not like I said goddammit), the don’t-want-to-go-to-hell Easter Only Christians, and all the rest.

Degrees of Belief

Comments?  Suggestions?

Or, maybe this was just a weird idea and I should scrap the whole thing.

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I’m going to kick this off with some statistics… Interesting that secularism ranks third among the world’s ideologies (click the image to zoom in).

Source: Data from http://www.adherents.com; chart created here...

Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.5 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
primal-indigenous: 300 million
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million
Baha'i: 7 million
Jainism: 4.2 million
Shinto: 4 million
Cao Dai: 4 million
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
Tenrikyo: 2 million
Neo-Paganism: 1 million
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
Scientology: 500 thousand

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