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Old Apr 11, 2008, 01:16 pm   #2 (permalink) (top)
gallo
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CIA factbook says

Most Popular World Religions

Does this mean anything.

Note: the Wiccan religion is perhaps the 3rd largest one but no stats are obtainable for that because they do not have a organization to belong too, per-say.
That's "per se". It's Latin for "by or of itself".

So what your link says is that Islam is the most numerous faith, followed by Roman Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans, Sikhs, and Jews. There is, of course, more than one version of Islam (2 major and numerous minor sects) and there are hundreds of Protestant sects. Even the Jews have several sects.


As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;...
--From Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli passed unanimously by the Senate 1797
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