If you look up "% people in (your area) religious" you'll find roughly 80% identify as one religion or another. If religion is the problem it's 80% of the population.

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But I am not religious. So seemed not so reliable stats

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You just said you were Protestant

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, he said that he would probably be COUNTED as Protestant on some survey, those are rarely polled largely enough, and it's certainly not a census.

I still have records in the Mormon church, but I'm definitely not a Mormon any more. Would I be counted as one in those stats? Probably.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Studies don't randomly guess if someone is religious or not, they ask people directly if they are religious.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but these are taken as sample. I've never once been asked, but I'm certain my existence in a particular geographic area has been counted one way or the other. Was the sample statistically significant? Who knows.

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Counted as affiliation of by culture ,studies are as said not a census. I was born into something . My belief may be something else. Then also not all religions are equal in my book . The desert variations are at one end. Others Sikhs , Buddhism, variations of different polytheists and are more on the other end...

One end is more prone to blow shit up just for who beliefs in what skydaddy.

Am I religious? No . Am I spiritual? sure but I would never trust a hippie. And my worldview is more based around material reality than idealistic wishing. Where do I end up in the stats?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Where do I end up in the stats?

Depends on your answer to the question "do you believe in God" or "what religion are you".