If someone actually believes their religion, I think that’s true. However, at least from a US perspective, religion seems to be more about group identity than particular beliefs about reality.
I probably show up in some statistics as protestant.
According to the guy I replied to that makes you an extremist.
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.
All religions are extreme.
If someone actually believes their religion, I think that’s true. However, at least from a US perspective, religion seems to be more about group identity than particular beliefs about reality.
so 80% of the population are extremists?
Is 80% religious practioners? I mean I probably show up in some statistics as protestant.
According to the guy I replied to that makes you an extremist.
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.
But I am not religious. So seemed not so reliable stats
You just said you were Protestant
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.
Studies don’t randomly guess if someone is religious or not, they ask people directly if they are religious.