Who believes in evolution?

[lovbyts]

OK here is one for you bible thumpers (anyone still out there?) If you need something to lift your spirits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdZwitrNoY
I watched it. I think I just threw up in my mouth. LOL That is just SOOoooo sweet, and fake. LOL

[D7M]

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I dont agree 100% on your statement D7M. Let me tell you why, when my mom met my stepdad (jew) it took her around 5 years or longer to convert to Judaism. She had to attend hundreds upon hundreds of seminars and stuff at the Shul, and only after that she was able to say that she is a jew. Maybe im looking in it in the wrong context but im just saying..

Ok, but she still converted.

My point is just that one can't really say (like the Dawkins clip above), that the over-riding or even sole reason for someone being one religion over another is geographical coincidence, simply because one can point to numerous counter examples where someone has been raised in a certain religious tradition and subsequently converted.

Shit, even one of my family members (who was raised Christian) became Muslim a few years ago.

OK here is one for you bible thumpers (anyone still out there?) If you need something to lift your spirits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdZwitrNoY
I watched it. I think I just threw up in my mouth. LOL That is just SOOoooo sweet, and fake. LOL

I agree, that was pretty freakin gay (no offense, DSM

[Flagg]

Ok, but she still converted.

My point is just that one can't really say (like the Dawkins clip above), that the over-riding or even sole reason for someone being one religion over another is geographical coincidence, simply because one can point to numerous counter examples where someone has been raised in a certain religious tradition and subsequently converted.

Shit, even one of my family members (who was raised Christian) became Muslim a few years ago.






I agree, that was pretty freakin gay (no offense, DSM

I'd be interested to see some empirical demographic data of the percentage of people in certain religion dominated areas of the world that convert to something else entirely. Infact thats what im just going to do.

Syria: Muslim 87% (Sunnis account for 74% of the total,[69] while the remaining 13% are Alawite, Twelvers, and Ismailis combined[69]), Druze 3%,[69] Christian 10%[69] (majority Greek Orthodox, other Christian include Greek Catholic, Protestants and other various denominations).

USA: According to a 2007 survey, 78.4% of adults identified themselves as Christian,[140] down from 86.4% in 1990.[141] Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3%, while Roman Catholicism, at 23.9%, was the largest individual denomination. The study categorizes white evangelicals, 26.3% of the population, as the country's largest religious cohort;[140] another study estimates evangelicals of all races at 30–35%.[142] The total reporting non-Christian religions in 2007 was 4.7%, up from 3.3% in 1990.[141] The leading non-Christian faiths were Judaism (1.7%), Buddhism (0.7%), Islam (0.6%), Hinduism (0.4%), and Unitarian Universalism (0.3%).

Ireland: Ireland's largest religious group is Christianity, of which the largest denomination is the Catholic Church (over 73% for the entire island, and about 86.8%[113] for the Republic), and most of the rest of the population adhere to one of the various Protestant denominations. The largest is the Anglican Church of Ireland. The Irish Muslim community is growing, mostly through increased immigration (see Islam in Ireland). The island also has a small Jewish community (see History of the Jews in Ireland). Over 4% of the Republic's population describe themselves as of no religion.

Italy: Roman Catholicism is by far the largest religion in the country, although the Catholic Church is no longer officially the state religion. Fully 87.8% of Italians identified themselves as Roman Catholic,[44] although only about one-third of these described themselves as active members (36.8%). Other Christian groups in Italy include more than 700,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians including 180,000 Greek Orthodox,[45] 550,000 Pentecostals and Evangelicals (0.8%), of whom 400,000 are members of the Assemblies of God, 235,685 Jehovah's Witnesses (0.4%),[46] 30,000 Waldensians,[47] 25,000 Seventh-day Adventists, 22,000 Mormons, 15,000 Baptists (plus some 5,000 Free Baptists), 7,000 Lutherans, 4,000 Methodists (affiliated with the Waldensian Church)

Egypt: Religion in Egypt controls many aspects of social life and is endorsed by law. Egypt is predominantly Muslim, with Muslims comprising between 80% and 90% of a population of around 80 million Egyptians[72][73][74][75][76][77][78] Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunni.[72] A significant number of Muslim Egyptians also follow native Sufi orders,[79] and there is a minority of Shi'a.

So yes I would say region plays a HUGE part in what religion you believe in. You also have to remember that for the minority groups, a lot of that is going to be people that have come from other regions to which that religion is predominate and have migrated.

[BJJ]

Italy: Roman Catholicism is by far the largest religion in the country, although the Catholic Church is no longer officially the state religion.

Wrong, unfortunately.