I mean eventually people were going to settle there. I mean who's going to leave a perfectly good area the size of a continent lying around just so you can deport people? That's kind of like saying the only people who live in Siberia are people Russia deported.
I missed Israel because I was concentrating on other things and ran out of time. But Morocco's population is tiny compared to, say, Indonesia. Also, the headings are a bit weird: Protestantism and Orthodoxy are sects of Christianity, and Wahhabism and Shia are sects of Islam.
I think it makes sense the way it's listed. The quiz is more interesting trying to guess the smaller sects. Otherwise the huge-population countries like Indonesia,USA,India etc would dominate everything on the list.
Technically, Christianity broke off of Judaism. Catholics broke off of Orthodox, and all the other branches of Christianity broke off of the Catholics.
So in a way you could call Christianity a sect of Judaism.
The population of Morocco is 33 million people. 99% of 33 million is still far less than the number of Muslims in Egypt. It's only about a tenth of the population of Indonesia.
maybe that 99% of morocco is Islamic however it misses out due to population maybe so lets say 30% of nigeria is Islamic just for illistartion purposes, that 30% more be more people than 99% of morocco
Fascinating quiz, though I'm a bit surprised not to see Catholicism here. Now, I better go and find out what Wahhabism is all about! That one's been off my radar...
You must also be warned not to be confused by this quiz's classification of Wahhabism. I think I have said this before on this site. Wahhabism is not a religious sect; movement it may be, but a purely ideological one. It does not differ from mainstream Sunni Islam in any of its dogma or required practices. The main distinction is that Wahhabis like to take the opinion of the more strict Jurists and Ulamaa and tend to interpret texts very literally and give no credit to logical analysis of the meaning behind the texts, which is what most meanstream Sunnis do. There is no such thing as the Wahhabi Faith, but you can make an acceptable argument for a Shia Faith or a Catholic Faith.
Also, it is important to mention that Wahhabism has always been linked to the politics of one specific country, that is Saudi Arabia, and it is not surprising to find that many of Wahhabi opinions are influenced by Saudi state policy and vica versa. That, in my opinion, further cements Wahhabism's place as a political, ideological movement.
I'm of two minds about it, one says you're right Protestants and Orthodoxs are christians as well, on the other hand Catholicism was the original Christian religion, so it could technically be called christianity.
The second column actually is for all Christian denominations combined, though (if it was only Catholics, Brazil would be well ahead of the US). Perhaps it would make more sense to use data for Catholicism and Protestantism, rather than for Christianity (combined) and Protestantism, but the current column labels are correct in terms of matching the answers.
kalbahamut, are you on your trip mentioned in your quiz? If yes, have you already been to Poland? I'd love to hear your impressions about my country :)
The USA has a broad census of Jewish population, which ranges anywhere from slightly less than Israel to a half-million more than Israel, probably due to people identifying as Jewish but not practicing and vice versa. I would, theoretically, take my chances and assume the USA has more Jews than Israel.
No. Catholicism is not the default branch of Christianity. If it were, then the USA would definitely not be #1. Very few of the Christians in the USA are Catholic. Obviously, Christianity on this quiz includes Catholics, Protestants,and Orthodox Christians, as well. There are 85+ million Christians (of any denomination) in Nigeria, which is more than the total number of Orthodox Christians anywhere.
There are about 70 million Catholics in the US. 70% of the US is Christian and around 20% are Catholic. #4 among countries for Catholics, so I think "very few" is bit of an overstatement, but you are right that it is not the default branch by any means.
It's hard to be sure Kolji without better data... but... pretty sure. If the quiz is correct then Russia is home to the largest population of Orthodox Christians in the world. The total number of Orthodox Christians in Russia is estimated at somewhere between 50 and 100 million people. If the high end of those estimates are accurate then there are more Orthodox Christians in Russia than there are Christians of any kind in Nigeria, but I suspect the lower estimates are more accurate.
I think Vietnam should probably be on the Buddhist list. 91 million people, and excepting the ethnic minorities in the highlands, and a small percentage of Christians, they are all Buddhist.
You wouldn't exactly include Atheism in a quiz about religions. Anyway the number is probably hard to define as people have different understandings of atheism. According to Wikipedia those are the top 10 surveyed countries with people who viewed themselves as "convinced atheists" (note that those are percentages rather than the total population): China (47%), Japan (31%), Czechia (30%), France (29%), South Korea (15%), Germany (15%), Netherlands (14%), Austria (10%), Iceland (10%), Australia (10%), Ireland (10%).
I made a quiz about countries with the most irreligious people a long time ago. The main problem was that sources gave wildly different estimates, so I had to calculate the average. If you're interested, try it here.
Yeah. Since atheism isn't a religion, doesn't have tenets, specific meeting places or anyone taking attendance, it's very hard to accurately count the number of atheists. Even some atheists don't know they're atheists. I once read a survey according to which a significant proportion of French people who consider themselves "catholics"... also don't believe in god. Conceivably, you could consider them to be both religious and atheistic!
WOW! - Catholics aren't Christians? - They don't believe in Christ as the Savior? - That is the ONLY things that distinguishes Christians from Jewish, Islam, Hindu, Shintoism, etc. their belief in CHRIST.
I have a friend from Bahrain; they are Shias. Wahhabism isn't a faith anyway, theyare no different from other Sunnis; they're just more Shari'ah extreme.
Wahhabism (mostly they refer to themselves as Salafists) is just an approach to Islamic jurisprudence, really. But many of the different sects of Christianity come down to similar or even more superficial differences. I used to have an apartment in Bahrain. There are shia and sunni there. I don't know that the sunnis would call themselves Salafists- and they certainly wouldn't call themselves Wahhabists, this is a label applied by outsiders- though that doesn't necessarily render the distinction invalid.
As a lot of other quiz-takers have pointed out, your choice of religions and branches is confusing. Why Christianity, Protestantism and Orthodoxy? And why Islam, Shia and Wahhabism? It would be more intuitive to pick all of the main branches, as in Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy (and maybe add Christianity in general as well). Similarly, Sunni and Shia (and maybe add Islam in general as well). While your data is not wrong, your choice of religious branches can give the wrong idea (and some people in the comment section have taken the bait).
Catholicism was not the original Christian religion (s/b denomination). The original Christians, according to the book of Acts, called themselves "followers of the (or that) Way."
It was unbelievers in Syrian Antioch who first called them "Christians (Χριστιανός, Christianos)."
It was probably a nickname or even a term of derision.
Please change the Christianity column to Catholicism (as Protestants and Orthodox are Christians too); and change the Islam column to Sunni (as likewise Shia and Wahhabists are Islamic too).
Fricken romania... guessed bahrain on last second... Also tried every country around romania... hungary, serbia, greece, moldova, bulgaria, ukraine..ahhh
Running out of time while typing the last correct answer on the first try is the most frustrating thing. Have to retake the whole quiz just to get that 100% :)
obviously the column that says christian includes all christian denominations and the one that says protestant only includes protestants. it's not that difficult to figure out.
Nope. The "Christian" column includes all branches of Christianity. If it were only for Catholics, Brazil would be first, and I believe the US would only be fourth.
As an atheist who has completed this with 1:52 remaining, all I'll say is that it is abundantly clear what the quiz is asking for. Christianity does not refer to Catholicism only - it is obvious that it refers to the entirety of the religion. There is no Catholic-only sub-category within this quiz, the same way there's no Sunni-only sub-category.
Except for Steve the gardener. He lives by the Syrian Hibiscus next to the fountain and calls himself "spiritual, but not religious," though I suspect he's a closet atheist. So technically only 99.88% religious.
Not sure why some are so snarky in answering the obvious question as to why Protestants are not covered under the Christian heading. It's a very valid question and no, the instructions are not clear about this.
But more importantly, if people took a few moments to read other comments there wouldn't be a ridiculous amount of erroneous posts saying the same bloody thing
Protestantism and Orthodoxy are branches of Christianity, just as Shia and Wahhabism are branches of Islam. I guess Christianity should be changed to "Catholicism" and Islam to "Sunni" or "Sunni Islam".
also, another quiz on islam had 99% of Morocco as islamic, so i expected it to on this list...
So in a way you could call Christianity a sect of Judaism.
Of course Mormanism claims to be the only original Christian church but many Christians don't think Mormans are Christian or even monotheistic.
The quiz only says Bahrain has the 4th biggest number of Wahhabis, not that the Bahrain is majority Wahhabist.
Sheesh!
It was unbelievers in Syrian Antioch who first called them "Christians (Χριστιανός, Christianos)."
It was probably a nickname or even a term of derision.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/332685/most-religious-us-states
The instructions are very clear
As an atheist who has completed this with 1:52 remaining, all I'll say is that it is abundantly clear what the quiz is asking for. Christianity does not refer to Catholicism only - it is obvious that it refers to the entirety of the religion. There is no Catholic-only sub-category within this quiz, the same way there's no Sunni-only sub-category.
Do you also think that Christians ARE Protestants?
But more importantly, if people took a few moments to read other comments there wouldn't be a ridiculous amount of erroneous posts saying the same bloody thing