He is risen, Happy Easter.

[HagginHall1999]

Eternity is a difficult concept to grasp, being something that has no end. Unless the human element is radically changed in an afterlife, wouldn’t eternity get boring? It is the finite nature of life that makes so many moments special.

I look at it as exploring all of your potential destinies. Never to get bored, it is just the beginning.

 

[MNantz]

I would like to wish all my BBN brother and sisters a Happy Easter, I hope you all had as good of an Easter Sunday as you could possibly have under these difficult circumstances.

 

[KopiKat]

Good question, I will say that Islam is the #1 religion by numbers..It's skewed though.

Skewed like a football bat is right. Wrong about the popularity contest though. Christianity is the world's most common religion (slightly > 30%). Islam is next at less than 25%.

The Christianity breakdown is roughly a 60-40 split, with almost 40% representing the world Protestants. 1/2 the world Christians are Catholic. The remaining 11% or so made up by what remains since the great schism, Eastern Orthodox and in lesser numbers Oriental Orthodox.

Hindu, Buddhism do most of the rounding out obviously. And a less careful thing to note is what is clearly the world's most influential religion (pound for pound). Whether, observed, non-observed, Hasidic, Haredi, Messianic . . . Judaism accounts for only two-tenths of a % among all world followers, yet shapes the globe no less than near equally or greater than most others.

 

[stoneycat_20]

Skewed like a football bat is right. Wrong about the popularity contest though. Christianity is the world's most common religion (slightly > 30%). Islam is next at less than 25%.

The Christianity breakdown is roughly a 60-40 split, with almost 40% representing the world Protestants. 1/2 the world Christians are Catholic. The remaining 11% or so made up by what remains since the great schism, Eastern Orthodox and in lesser numbers Oriental Orthodox.

Hindu, Buddhism do most of the rounding out obviously. And a less careful thing to note is what is clearly the world's most influential religion (pound for pound). Whether, observed, non-observed, Hasidic, Haredi, Messianic . . . Judaism accounts for only two-tenths of a % among all world followers, yet shapes the globe no less than near equally or greater than most others.

Zing...over your head it went

 

[KopiKat]

Zing...over your head it went

Not sure what you're getting at. Islam is the major religion of the under-developed world (unreliable population numbers . . skewed). Indonesia, for example. World's most populous Muslim country. Then Pakistan, then India, then Bangladesh, then Nigeria . . . which of these countries can reliably calculate it's own population, much less determine accurate religious assignments? Absolutely those numbers are only partially reliable.

But it would require an ENORMOUS error (departure from the accepted) for Islam to overtake Christianity as the world's leading religion. Pretty sure if you back off the estrogen you will realize who's head was below the other's.