Stan wrote:
Danmark wrote:
I can't help you if you don't read. The site I referenced shows, for example, that both Samoa and Romania are 99% Christian and a total of at least
20 countries that are over 93% to 100% Christian. Six countries are 99% to 100% Muslim, and
18 countries that are between 93% and 100% Muslim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_re ... opulations
You are entitled to your own untested and intellectually flabby opinions, but not to your own facts.
I read, I just don't accept EVERYTHING I read at face value. It is the same kind of faith that you denigrate, that allows you to accept Wiki as 100% factual.
FYI, 100% of Vatican citizens are NOT Christian just the same as 100% of any church is NOT actually Christian. Being Roman Catholic does NOT mean you are a Christian any more than being an Israeli means you are Judaic. Canada is NOT 60-70% Christian. USA is NOT 80-90% Christian. The U.S. includes Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses in their figures, who are NOT Christians.
If a Muslim country takes a census and asks it citizens what religion they are, how many will answer Christian?
You speak of logic yet use none in your understanding of these polls.
I'm entitled to FACTS which you have NOT presented. This is typical of people of your ilk.
You've completely missed the point and now are compounding the error.
The point is that it is not truth and logic that, in general make one a Muslim or a Christian. It is tradition. The statistics demonstrate that very powerfully. If there are are approximately 20 countries that are over 90% Muslim and 20 others that are over 90% Christian, than obviously there is something going on besides free will, choice, logic and objective evaluation.
If you don't like the statistics, the facts, prove them wrong. You have not. You've essentially just said you don't like them. Then you bring in things that are completely irrelevant, such as quibbling with the religious statistics re: the USA, Canada, and the Vatican.
Wikipedia does not say the U.S. is "80-90% Christian" as you claim it does. Wikipedia states that,
73% of polled Americans identifying themselves as Christian in 2012.[1] This is down from 86% in 1990, and slightly lower than 78.6% in 2001.[2] About 62% of those polled claim to be members of a church congregation.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiani ... ted_States.
If you want to quibble with those numbers, read the footnotes and do your own research or find a different site. Your
opinion regarding what you think the 'true' numbers are is irrelevant.
Also, your
opinion about who is and is not a Christian is irrelevant to the argument.
The essence of the argument is that many countries are predominantly composed of people claiming allegiance to one religion vs. another. Do you disagree with that?
Do you have an explanation for that difference that suggests most of these folk came to widely differing conclusions about faith based on an objective search for truth?
Or are you willing to concede the point that, in general, people make their religious choices based on their traditions and culture?
By the way, personalizing the argument with statements like "...
typical of people of your ilk," does not advance the argument.