Have you heard that religious belief is supposedly dying out? Not according to THESE FACTS AND FIGURES. Thanks to John Hobbins over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry for posting them. Some of these statistics are absolutely astounding. I’ll give you just one to whet your appetite:
2#. Every 24 hours, the number of atheists in the world is estimated to increase by 900; of Jews, by 330; of Buddhists, by 7,700; of Hindus, by 34,000; of Muslims, by 70,000; of Christians, by 82,000 [ IBMRJan 2009, 32].
Click over and check the rest out. You may be just as floored as I was.