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!
And I feel like some of the numbers for the UK on this quiz must be people who consider themselves 'culturally' Christian/Protestant but who don't actually attend church or anything.
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".
100%. Yesterday I had 45 seconds left and I couldn't figure out the 4th one for Orthodoxy so I was about to give up and then I had to pause and I forgot to come back to it and then today I thought of Romania
Half of these are not actual religions just denominations of bigger ones example: Protestantism and Orthodoxy are both denominations of Christianity and Shia and Wahhabism are denominations of Islam
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