Religions of the world!

I viewed the Adherents.com website, per our assignment, and studied the pie charts and demographics on the world's religions. I can say that I was very suprised by some of the information!! First of all, I knew that Christianity was large, but I really did not realize that it made up over 30% of the world's religions. Secondly, I honestly expected Judaism to be right up there in the top 2 , or at least top 5 world religions. I was so shocked to see that less than 1% of the population is Jewish! Especially since the two largest religions are based upon fundamental teachings and scripture from Judaism. Really amazing.

Another shocker to me was how small Scientology is. For a religion that is in the media constantly, embodied by celebrities and basically one of those religions that you hear being debated over and over, it is practiced by a suprisingly few amount of people. Scientology was at the bottom of the list, even being out-numbered by "zoroastrianism" and "Juche"....What??? (two religions that I have never even heard of!).

I really found these statistics interesting. In fact, I passed this info along to my brother-in-law this morning and we reviewed the site again at breakfast this morning! Just thought I'd share my thoughts with you all!