Atheist numbers...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

For every Buddhist, there are 2 atheists.
For every Sikh, there are 35 atheists.
For every Jew, there are 41 atheists.
For every Mormon, there are 58 atheists.

Source: Zuckerman, P. 2007. "Atheism: Contemporary Numbers and Patterns." In M. Martin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[Pappa]

For every Buddhist, there are 2 atheists.
For every Sikh, there are 35 atheists.
For every Jew, there are 41 atheists.
For every Mormon, there are 58 atheists.

Source: Zuckerman, P. 2007. "Atheism: Contemporary Numbers and Patterns." In M. Martin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Does it have figures for Christians and Muslims too?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

For every Buddhist, there are 2 atheists.
For every Sikh, there are 35 atheists.
For every Jew, there are 41 atheists.
For every Mormon, there are 58 atheists.

Source: Zuckerman, P. 2007. "Atheism: Contemporary Numbers and Patterns." In M. Martin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Does it have figures for Christians and Muslims too?

I haven't found the source book yet, that info was from the latest Skeptic issue.

[Trolldor]

I am skeptical about those numbers. Need more sauces.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I am skeptical about those numbers. Need more sauces.

Skeptical is good. I will track down a copy of the book and put a copy of the source where it can be found.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Okay, Washington University at St. Louis, WUSTL, has a copy of the source. I have some free time tomorrow.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Religion Adherents
Christianity --- 2.1 billion
Islam --- 1.5 billion
Secularism/irreligious/agnostic/atheism --- 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
Bahá'í Faith --- 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 --- 800,000
Rastafari Movement --- 600,000
Scientology --- 500,000

Here's some figures quoted in Wikipedia. Original source - adherents.com

[Thinking Aloud]

That's more than I'd have thought for atheists/agnostics/etc.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Secularism/irreligious/agnostic/atheism --- 1.1 billion

That's my new line. "There are 1 billion rational humans on this planet right now. Care to join them?"

[Xamonas Chegwé]

That's more than I'd have thought for atheists/agnostics/etc.

They probably count a lot of the Chinese in that number - and all of the north Koreans. Big pinch of salt required in any of those lists.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Okay, Washington University at St. Louis, WUSTL, has a copy of the source. I have some free time tomorrow.

Finally. http://rationalia.com/gawdzilla/AtheistNumbers.pdf

[floppit]

No-one asked me!! There's at least one atheist missing from the list!

But other than that, what worries me more is that the Skeptic mag left off the 2 biggest faiths (according to XC's figures). I'm thinking the figures reproduced were selected on the basis that they showed more atheists than believers of a given religion - I don't like that. Cherry picking from numbers might be as popular as having a poo but sod it, I lose interest when it's so blatant and unnecessary. It's not a good way to compare either, people who believe are subdivided, atheists are not - mind you at this rate atheists will be too!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No-one asked me!! There's at least one atheist missing from the list!

But other than that, what worries me more is that the Skeptic mag left off the 2 biggest faiths (according to XC's figures). I'm thinking the figures reproduced were selected on the basis that they showed more atheists than believers of a given religion - I don't like that. Cherry picking from numbers might be as popular as having a poo but sod it, I lose interest when it's so blatant and unnecessary. It's not a good way to compare either, people who believe are subdivided, atheists are not - mind you at this rate atheists will be too!

Skeptic got it's number from that article. It's worth a read, IMHO.

[The Dawktor]

Just goes to show 5 Billion people CAN be wrong!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just goes to show 5 Billion people CAN be wrong!

The dictatorship of democracy is the worse dictatorship of all.

(My favorite saying, "The IQ of a mob is equal to one-half the lowest IQ in the mob.")