File talk:Worldwide percentage of Adherents by Religion.png
reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.66.26.117 (talk • contribs) 08:15, 8 July 2007
- It appears to me that the remarks on the image page sufficiently answer that question. –Wookipedian 05:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
This image is rather difficult to read. The colours are all fairly similar and they disappear into one another at this scale. I think a better idea would be to split this image into two, with the nine largest groups in one pie, and then the rest grouped as "other", and then have a second image that breaks the "Other" down separately. Serendipodous 10:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I highly doubt that only 2.35% of the worldwide population is atheist, if we stick to the census of different countries. In fact, 50% of the population of China (which represents about 20% of the world population) is atheist. According to the National Geographic issue of December 2007 in Spanish, atheists represent 14 per cent of the world's population. I right this to justify the changes that I will make after I have completed this statement. Thank y'all, Francopedorro (talk) 23:53, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
- "Atheist" is a very fluid term, which doesn't really have a fixed meaning, and that meaning changes depending on who says it. Some define an atheist as not believing in God(s), in which case all agnostics are also atheists. Others define "atheist" as believing no God(s) exist(s), a category that would include Scientologists and several branches of New Age philosophy as well as biological determinists or antitheists. The percentage of atheists in the world would vary wildly depending on what criteria are used to define the concept. Serendipodous 22:17, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
