Religion is one of the most spread phenomenons on the planet. About 85 to 90% of Earth’s inhabitants believe in a certain divinity and follow a certain type of religion. These are the main religions and number of adepts (plus the percentage of the world’s population they represent):
1. 30 to 35 % Christians - 2 to 2.2 billion adepts
2. 15 to 20 % Islamists - 1.3 to 1.6 billion adepts
3. 12 to 17 % Irreligious/Atheism - 1 to 1.25 billion adepts
4. 10 to 15 % Hindus - 850 to 920 million adepts
5. 6 to 10 % Buddhist - 420 to 470 million adepts
6. 3 to 6 % Chinese Traditional - 375 to 395 million adepts
7. 3 to 5% Animist religions - 250 to 350 million adepts
8. 1 to 2 % Primal-Indigenous - 95 to 105 million adepts
9. 0.4 to 0.6% Sikhism - 22 to 25 million adepts
10. 0.3 to 0.5% Juche - 18 to 21 million adepts
11. 0.2 to 0.4% Spiritism - 14 to 17 million adepts
12. 0.15 to 0.35% Judaism - 12 to 15 million adepts
13. 0.1 to 0.18% Baha'i - 5 to 8 million adepts
14. 0.08 to 0.12% Jainism - 4 to 4.4 million adepts
15. 0.08 to 0.11% Shinto - 3.5 to 4.2 million adepts
16. 0.07 to 0.09% Cao Dai - 3.5 to 4.1 million adepts
17. 0.04 to 0.06% Zoroastrianism - 2.3 to 2.8 million adepts
18. 0.03 to 0.05% Tenrikyo - 1.9 to 2.2 million adepts
19. 0.02 to 0.024% Neo-Paganism - 0.8 to 1.2 million adepts
20. 0.018 to 0.022% Unitarian Universalism - 780.000 to 810.000 million adepts
21. 0.013 to 0.017% Rastafari Movement - 590.000 to 620.000 million adepts
Science and Religion - Facts about GOD and SATAN throughout the main religions
The main Gods:
Christian religion - God - “the creator and overseer of the universe”
Islamist religion - Allah - “the creator of the universe and omnipotent”
Hindu religion - Lords Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva - “the creators and destroyers of all existence”
Buddhist religion - Buddha - “the awakened one”
Chinese Traditional religion - Guan Yu - Symbol of loyalty
- Baosheng Dadi - "Great Emperor Protector of Life"
- Caishen - God of Wealth
- Shou Xing - God of Longevity
- Fushen - God of Happiness
- Jiuhuang Dadi - The Gods of sailors
- Mazu - The Goddess of sailors
- Shangdi - Supreme emperor
- Tudi Gong - God of the Earth
- Wenchangdi - God of students and scholars
- Xi Wangmu - Queen of the Jade Pond
- Zaoshen - The God of the Kitchen
- Songzi Niangniang - The fertility goddess
The main Evil Forces:
Christian religion - Satan/Lucifer - “The Fallen One”
Islamist religion - Shaitan/Shaytan - “He that causes despair"
Hindu religion - Kroni - “The first evil born in the Universe”
Buddhist religion - Mara/Lord Of Death - “the death of the spiritual life”
Judaist religion - Satanael/Satariel/Sataniel/Satan'el - “the prosecutor”
The scientific and religious truth about GOD
Despite the teachings of the Church and the Holy Bible, science has proven time and time again that these teachings are false. The truth is that God is simply an invention of the early man trying to justify its origins and purpose in the Universe. We are all born of a series of accidents throughout the cosmos and on our planet that made life possible, a state that can easily change at any time unless we find ways to prevent it. As for The Holy Bible, it is just a book written by believers in order to explain certain events that science was unable to explain at that time like the creation of the universe, the ten plagues, the Flood and the miracles performed by Jesus - “The Son Of God”. People believe in divinities for thousands of years, and throughout the decades religions suffered dramatic changes from paganism to some of the most spread religions on the planet like Christianity, Islamism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Also throughout the ages several hundred million people died for their beliefs during countless wars like the crusades, the Roman Empire’s Wars and the two World Wars.
Science and Religion - Part 1
The creation of the world – Christian Religion
One of the first arguments is the origin of the Universe and of our planet Earth. The Holy Bible tells us that God created the Universe out of nothing in 6 days and rested on the 7th. Despite the fact that science can’t explain for now how and from what the Universe was created it can tell us that this event took place about 15 billion years ago while the Earth was born about 4.6 billion years ago. Bellow are the main arguments that sustain this theory:
The Bible
Day 1: God commanded the presence of light and its separation from darkness.
The Scientific Truth
Day and night exist since the Earth was created. This phenomenon is caused by the planet’s spinning motion given by the collision of young Earth with another planet about four billion years ago. This collision that also gave birth to the Moon.
The Bible
Day 2: God separated the sky and oceans.
The Scientific Truth
The skies (atmosphere and clouds) were created about 1.5 billion years after the birth of planet Earth due to the major volcanic activities on the planet’s surface. At that time the Earth’s magnetic field was also established thus preventing the stripping of the atmosphere by the solar winds. The oceans were created about 1 billion years later by condensing water vapors and the melting of ice from asteroids and comets that frequently struck the Earth in its early days.
The Bible
Day 3: God separated land from the oceans; spreading of plants and grass and trees across the land. (POZA Oceans, Land , Trees)
The Scientific Truth
The oceans and continents were always separated. The only changes that occurred during the 4.6 billions year of Earth’s existence are the continental drifts that separated the Supercontinents of Gondwana, Laurasia, Pangaea, Pannotia, Rodinia, Columbia, Kenorland, Nena, Ur and Vaalbara into the 7 continents we know today: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.
The Bible
Day 4: God caused the sun, moon, and stars to be attached to the underside of the firmament - a dome that covered the earth.
The Scientific Truth
The Sun was also born about 4.6 billion years ago however most of the stars in our Galaxy – The Milky Way were born much earlier. As for the Moon, it was created when young Earth collided with a “wandering” planet about 4.5 billion years ago.
The Bible
Day 5: God ordered the sea to "teem with living creatures" and birds to fly in the air.
The Scientific Truth
While bacteria were born about 3.8 billion years and single cells evolved about 1.8 billion years later, complex life form began to form in the oceans only about 1 billion years ago. It took another half billion years for the Earth’s atmosphere to be saturated by oxygen and allow life to evolve on the surface.
The Bible
Day 6: God ordered the land to produce land animals. God created humans, "someone like ourselves”.
The Scientific Truth
While land animals evolved at the same time with airborne ones, humans evolved from a species of bipedal primates only 200.000 years ago and evolved to the form we know today about 50.000 years ago.
The Bible
Day 7: God rested.
The Scientific Truth
Science has already proven that it actually took over 4 billion years for the Earth to form and life to evolve unlike the 6 days that the Bible tells us. So this 7th day, when God supposedly rested was meant just to give working people a day off.
The Earth will continue to change and life will continue to evolve, however it’s very unlikely that people will stop believing in God, even if all scientific evidence proves that He doesn’t exist.
Science and Religion - Part 2
Religious and scientific truths about Jesus – Christian Religion
The Bible
Jesus Christ is known throughout the Christian Religion as the son of GOD. According to the Bible, Jesus was conceived by a miracle of the Holy Spirit.
The Scientific Truth
There was nothing miraculous about the birth of Jesus, like all children of that time he was born 9 months after his parents engaged in sexual intercourse. The only miraculous fact about the conceiving and birth of Jesus was that Mary, his mother actually believed that God had actually spoken to her and told her that Jesus will be born as his reincarnation on Earth.
The Bible
Jesus was a Jew and through his life he was a teacher and healer, performed miracles and was baptized by John the Baptist.
The Scientific Truth
There were a lot of “teachers” at that time, the only difference between Jesus and the other teachers were his teachings about "the kingdom of God". His “victims” were the poor people in the villages he worked in, people he could easily persuade to become his followers. Jesus also pretended to heal people and perform miracles like turning water to wine, walking on water, multiplying a small meal to feed a crowd, casting out demons, healing lepers and even raising people from the dead. All of these so called “miracles” can be explained by modern science as they are all fakes. Most of his “miracles” were based on the “placebo effect”, where people actually believed that they have regained their sight, have been healed or even exorcized by demons. The reason Jesus decided to be baptized by John the Baptist was actually to gain attention as John the Baptist was a very popular individual at that time. Jesus actually managed to convince some of John’s followers to leave and follow him in stead. He never admitted this fact and claimed that after he was baptized he saw his true purpose: To spread the word of God throughout the world.
The Bible
Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot and crucified by the Roman Empire at the age of 34-35 on the charge of sedition.
The Scientific Truth
Jesus was in fact betrayed by one of his disciples, brutally beaten and then executed by crucifixion at Golgotha. However he wasn’t a “special” case as Romans crucified people charged of sedition almost daily, he was just another victim of Roman barbarism.
The Bible
Three days after his body was placed inside his tomb, Jesus had risen from the dead.
The Scientific Truth
It is very possible that Jesus wasn’t even dead when he was placed inside his tomb or if he actually died on the cross his body was taken from the tomb by his acolytes in order to create the impression that he had risen from the dead.
The bottom line is that Jesus was just “a man”, not “The Son Of God” as The Bible calls him. Furthermore he didn’t die for the sins of mankind; he just thought he did because he was raised to believe so.
Another interesting fact is that there were actually many so called “Messiahs”, however The Church made sure that the world forgot all about them and also ensured that the secret of Jesus being just “a man” was kept until this day.
13. 0.1 to 0.18% Baha'i - 5 to 8 million adepts
14. 0.08 to 0.12% Jainism - 4 to 4.4 million adepts
15. 0.08 to 0.11% Shinto - 3.5 to 4.2 million adepts
16. 0.07 to 0.09% Cao Dai - 3.5 to 4.1 million adepts
17. 0.04 to 0.06% Zoroastrianism - 2.3 to 2.8 million adepts
18. 0.03 to 0.05% Tenrikyo - 1.9 to 2.2 million adepts
19. 0.02 to 0.024% Neo-Paganism - 0.8 to 1.2 million adepts
20. 0.018 to 0.022% Unitarian Universalism - 780.000 to 810.000 million adepts
21. 0.013 to 0.017% Rastafari Movement - 590.000 to 620.000 million adepts
The main Gods:
Christian religion - God - “the creator and overseer of the universe”
Islamist religion - Allah - “the creator of the universe and omnipotent”
Hindu religion - Lords Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva - “the creators and destroyers of all existence”
Buddhist religion - Buddha - “the awakened one”
Chinese Traditional religion - Guan Yu - Symbol of loyalty
- Baosheng Dadi - "Great Emperor Protector of Life"
- Caishen - God of Wealth
- Shou Xing - God of Longevity
- Fushen - God of Happiness
- Jiuhuang Dadi - The Gods of sailors
- Mazu - The Goddess of sailors
- Shangdi - Supreme emperor
- Tudi Gong - God of the Earth
- Wenchangdi - God of students and scholars
- Xi Wangmu - Queen of the Jade Pond
- Zaoshen - The God of the Kitchen
- Songzi Niangniang - The fertility goddess
The main Evil Forces:
Christian religion - Satan/Lucifer - “The Fallen One”
Islamist religion - Shaitan/Shaytan - “He that causes despair"
Hindu religion - Kroni - “The first evil born in the Universe”
Buddhist religion - Mara/Lord Of Death - “the death of the spiritual life”
Judaist religion - Satanael/Satariel/Sataniel/Satan'el - “the prosecutor”
The scientific and religious truth about GOD
Despite the teachings of the Church and the Holy Bible, science has proven time and time again that these teachings are false. The truth is that God is simply an invention of the early man trying to justify its origins and purpose in the Universe. We are all born of a series of accidents throughout the cosmos and on our planet that made life possible, a state that can easily change at any time unless we find ways to prevent it. As for The Holy Bible, it is just a book written by believers in order to explain certain events that science was unable to explain at that time like the creation of the universe, the ten plagues, the Flood and the miracles performed by Jesus - “The Son Of God”. People believe in divinities for thousands of years, and throughout the decades religions suffered dramatic changes from paganism to some of the most spread religions on the planet like Christianity, Islamism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Also throughout the ages several hundred million people died for their beliefs during countless wars like the crusades, the Roman Empire’s Wars and the two World Wars.
The creation of the world – Christian Religion
One of the first arguments is the origin of the Universe and of our planet Earth. The Holy Bible tells us that God created the Universe out of nothing in 6 days and rested on the 7th. Despite the fact that science can’t explain for now how and from what the Universe was created it can tell us that this event took place about 15 billion years ago while the Earth was born about 4.6 billion years ago. Bellow are the main arguments that sustain this theory:
The Bible
Day 1: God commanded the presence of light and its separation from darkness.
The Scientific Truth
Day and night exist since the Earth was created. This phenomenon is caused by the planet’s spinning motion given by the collision of young Earth with another planet about four billion years ago. This collision that also gave birth to the Moon.
The Bible
Day 2: God separated the sky and oceans.
The Scientific Truth
The skies (atmosphere and clouds) were created about 1.5 billion years after the birth of planet Earth due to the major volcanic activities on the planet’s surface. At that time the Earth’s magnetic field was also established thus preventing the stripping of the atmosphere by the solar winds. The oceans were created about 1 billion years later by condensing water vapors and the melting of ice from asteroids and comets that frequently struck the Earth in its early days.
The Bible
Day 3: God separated land from the oceans; spreading of plants and grass and trees across the land. (POZA Oceans, Land , Trees)
The Scientific Truth
The oceans and continents were always separated. The only changes that occurred during the 4.6 billions year of Earth’s existence are the continental drifts that separated the Supercontinents of Gondwana, Laurasia, Pangaea, Pannotia, Rodinia, Columbia, Kenorland, Nena, Ur and Vaalbara into the 7 continents we know today: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.
The Bible
Day 4: God caused the sun, moon, and stars to be attached to the underside of the firmament - a dome that covered the earth.
The Scientific Truth
The Sun was also born about 4.6 billion years ago however most of the stars in our Galaxy – The Milky Way were born much earlier. As for the Moon, it was created when young Earth collided with a “wandering” planet about 4.5 billion years ago.
The Bible
Day 5: God ordered the sea to "teem with living creatures" and birds to fly in the air.
The Scientific Truth
While bacteria were born about 3.8 billion years and single cells evolved about 1.8 billion years later, complex life form began to form in the oceans only about 1 billion years ago. It took another half billion years for the Earth’s atmosphere to be saturated by oxygen and allow life to evolve on the surface.
The Bible
Day 6: God ordered the land to produce land animals. God created humans, "someone like ourselves”.
The Scientific Truth
While land animals evolved at the same time with airborne ones, humans evolved from a species of bipedal primates only 200.000 years ago and evolved to the form we know today about 50.000 years ago.
The Bible
Day 7: God rested.
The Scientific Truth
Science has already proven that it actually took over 4 billion years for the Earth to form and life to evolve unlike the 6 days that the Bible tells us. So this 7th day, when God supposedly rested was meant just to give working people a day off.
The Earth will continue to change and life will continue to evolve, however it’s very unlikely that people will stop believing in God, even if all scientific evidence proves that He doesn’t exist.
Religious and scientific truths about Jesus – Christian Religion
The Bible
Jesus Christ is known throughout the Christian Religion as the son of GOD. According to the Bible, Jesus was conceived by a miracle of the Holy Spirit.
The Scientific Truth
There was nothing miraculous about the birth of Jesus, like all children of that time he was born 9 months after his parents engaged in sexual intercourse. The only miraculous fact about the conceiving and birth of Jesus was that Mary, his mother actually believed that God had actually spoken to her and told her that Jesus will be born as his reincarnation on Earth.
The Bible
Jesus was a Jew and through his life he was a teacher and healer, performed miracles and was baptized by John the Baptist.
The Scientific Truth
There were a lot of “teachers” at that time, the only difference between Jesus and the other teachers were his teachings about "the kingdom of God". His “victims” were the poor people in the villages he worked in, people he could easily persuade to become his followers. Jesus also pretended to heal people and perform miracles like turning water to wine, walking on water, multiplying a small meal to feed a crowd, casting out demons, healing lepers and even raising people from the dead. All of these so called “miracles” can be explained by modern science as they are all fakes. Most of his “miracles” were based on the “placebo effect”, where people actually believed that they have regained their sight, have been healed or even exorcized by demons. The reason Jesus decided to be baptized by John the Baptist was actually to gain attention as John the Baptist was a very popular individual at that time. Jesus actually managed to convince some of John’s followers to leave and follow him in stead. He never admitted this fact and claimed that after he was baptized he saw his true purpose: To spread the word of God throughout the world.
The Bible
Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot and crucified by the Roman Empire at the age of 34-35 on the charge of sedition.
The Scientific Truth
Jesus was in fact betrayed by one of his disciples, brutally beaten and then executed by crucifixion at Golgotha. However he wasn’t a “special” case as Romans crucified people charged of sedition almost daily, he was just another victim of Roman barbarism.
The Bible
Three days after his body was placed inside his tomb, Jesus had risen from the dead.
The Scientific Truth
It is very possible that Jesus wasn’t even dead when he was placed inside his tomb or if he actually died on the cross his body was taken from the tomb by his acolytes in order to create the impression that he had risen from the dead.
The bottom line is that Jesus was just “a man”, not “The Son Of God” as The Bible calls him. Furthermore he didn’t die for the sins of mankind; he just thought he did because he was raised to believe so.
Another interesting fact is that there were actually many so called “Messiahs”, however The Church made sure that the world forgot all about them and also ensured that the secret of Jesus being just “a man” was kept until this day.
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