• fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago
    1. I am not a christian lol
    2. I mean extremism by any person who uses religion as an excuse, not any particular one
          • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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            9 months ago

            I probably show up in some statistics as protestant.

            According to the guy I replied to that makes you an extremist.

            If you look up “% people in (your area) religious” you’ll find roughly 80% identify as one religion or another. If religion is the problem it’s 80% of the population.

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                  9 months ago

                  No, he said that he would probably be COUNTED as Protestant on some survey, those are rarely polled largely enough, and it’s certainly not a census.

                  I still have records in the Mormon church, but I’m definitely not a Mormon any more. Would I be counted as one in those stats? Probably.

                  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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                    9 months ago

                    Studies don’t randomly guess if someone is religious or not, they ask people directly if they are religious.