Looking at the world

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Argentina
89.28% Christian (actually mostly nominally Roman Catholics)
8.68% Non-religious
0.75% Muslim
1.29% Other

Brazil
91.4% Christians (73.8% declared Roman Catholics)
5.4% Ethnoreligionist
2.24% Non-religious
0.96% Other

Cambodia
83.34% Buddhist
4.8% Ethnoreligionist
3.13% Christian
2.97% Non-religious
2.85% Chinese religions
2.3% Muslim
0.26% Others
0.22% Hindu
0.13% Baha'i

China
20-30% Taoism & Buddhism
18-20% Mazuists
40-60% Agnostics
14-15% Atheists

Ghana
63.4% Christian (many only have tenuous link to a church)
23.79% Muslim
2.5% Ethnoreligionist
0.21% Non-religious
0.1% Baha'i

Indonesia
80.31% Muslim
15.85% Christian
1.3% Hindu
1.2% Ethnoreligionist
0.9% Chinese religions
0.4% Buddhist
0.04% Non-religious

Mexico
95.03% Christians (either nominal Roman Catholics or syncretistic Christianity)
3.6% Non-religious
1.2% Ethnoreligionist
0.1% Buddhist
0.4% Jewish
0.03% Baha'i

Nigeria
51.26% Christian
45.12% Muslim
3.31% Ethnoreligionist
0.3% Non-religious

Philippines
92.25% Christian (some are syncretistic Christianity)
5.65% Muslim
1.1% Non-religious
0.55% Ethnoreligionist
0.25% Baha'i
0.1% Buddhist
0.1% Chinese religions

South Korea
30.98% Non-religious
30.95% Christian
23.7% Buddhist
7% Ethnoreligionist
4.3% Other
2.7% Chinese religions
0.29% Muslim

Tanzania
54.07% Christian (Church attendance only 8%)
31.02% Muslim
12.97% Ethnoreligionist
0.9% Hindu
0.43% Baha'i
0.4% Non-religious

Vietnam
52.48% Buddhist
23.3% Non-religious
9.43% Christian
7.85% Ethnoreligionist
5.4% Other
1% Chinese religions

Zambia
86.95% Christian (many syncretistic Christianity)
10.8% Ethnoreligionist
1.35% Muslim
0.4% Baha'i
0.34% Non-religious
0.16% Hindu

Looking at the world. I watched a segment of JFK Mensah's preaching during the Biola Mission Conference. He was sharing how he became a missionary. He was in a conference and the preacher was sharing the state of Christianity in Africa and he was wondering 'what the heck was happening' and asked God to send him.

I therefore tried to emulate and took out the fact book that I received during the Hope Conference. I was asking 'what?' to the countries with high Christian populations. The point is clear, burden and compassion are built over prayers, and knowing the ground, not just waiting for God to instil the compassion. It's 'go and ...' not '... and go'.

I looked at the world and wondered how much lies are people willing to believe in order to gain some spiritual relief from so-called man-made religions.

I looked at the world and wonder how many people out there, especially people of my age, are struggling with the stupid intellectual irrational issues that people such as Dawkins and Harris are advocating.

I looked at the world and recently decided to declare war on syncretic religions, especially those which seek to amalgamate all the religions (including Christianity), especially worldviews such as Yi Guang Dao. 

Are you looking at the world?

Comments

  1. Anonymous10:00 PM

    One thing that really impresses me even before reading your post was the fact that you TYPED out ALL these statistics! LOL ....er or you could have copy and pasted it from Hope's webbie

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  2. Unknown10:01 PM

    I typed them out. What better way to get the sense on the numbers

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