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Hammer_of_Thor

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Hammer_of_Thor
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Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any videos, podcasts, etc. that give a broad overview of religions of the world. I am looking for what Mormons believe compared to JW to Catholics to Lutherans to Islam to the jewish faith. If anyone knows please post.

Thanks
 
The World Almanac has a nice chart showing the Christian religions for comparison. There are also a few comparisons with non-Christian religions. Not video, but a quick (two page) comparison.
 
Hammer_of_Thor said:
Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any videos, podcasts, etc. that give a broad overview of religions of the world. I am looking for what Mormons believe compared to JW to Catholics to Lutherans to Islam to the jewish faith. If anyone knows please post.

Thanks
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I'd be interested in a side-to-side comparison too.

Welcome to both you and SlyJoe. :)
 
I am not sure i entirely trust that link.. 2 billion christians, 1 billion atheist.. 1.something billion muslims... 0.1 billion jews(or something like that).


There can't be that many atheists.. can there?
 
There's roughly six billion people on the planet that were born atheist Toby...
 
I was mostly looking for comparisons in a "fairly" easy to use format, but didn't look at the numbers on that particular site.

That said, most of the sites I've seen regarding this tend to agree on the numbers, but they also agree that it is difficult to count. Again, another link I can't post.

adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
 
TobiasTheCommie said:
There can't be that many atheists.. can there?
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Why not?

There are only very few countries in the world where religion is so dominant. Even Poland is less religious than the US. Same for Italy, Spain and any other country I ever visited. AFAIK there are 2% going to church on Sundays in Germany.:clap:
 
grayman said:
There's roughly six billion people on the planet that were born atheist Toby...
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Don't you mean "agnostic" rather than "atheist?"

You have to know about God, or gods, or religion, or spiritual what have you, before you can consider it and reject it.

DR
 
Darth Rotor said:
Don't you mean "agnostic" rather than "atheist?"

You have to know about God, or gods, or religion, or spiritual what have you, before you can consider it and reject it.

DR
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Correct, but the folks keeping the stats mix the two together (at least the stats I've seen). So, that takes care of the newly born. What about the kids though? Can they really be classified as atheistic or agnostic? What age do you make a choice?
 
Hammer_of_Thor said:
Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any videos, podcasts, etc. that give a broad overview of religions of the world. I am looking for what Mormons believe compared to JW to Catholics to Lutherans to Islam to the jewish faith. If anyone knows please post.

Thanks
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It's not in video or podcast form, but here's a chart with an overview of the main beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses with scriptural references:
http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/article_03.htm
 
Slyjoe, you assume a choice is given. It can take people reared in a particular religion a while to realize a choice is even available, much less be able to make it, or want to make it.

Just saying. :)
 
slingblade said:
Slyjoe, you assume a choice is given. It can take people reared in a particular religion a while to realize a choice is even available, much less be able to make it, or want to make it.

Just saying. :)
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I agree - I think most people NEVER make a choice (at least not an informed one!). I didn't word my thoughts correctly. I meant at what age do the stat takers make a choice? How do you classify kids?

Sorry I wasn't clear.:o
 
I dunno. In my former sect (Assembly of God Pentecostal), it was 10. Can never remember what it was called...the word always escapes me. Age of ...
something. Started with C, I think.

Dunno where stat makers put it.
 
No blood transfusions
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With regard to Jehovah's Witnesses. Is this accurate? I knew a Jehovah's Witness, and she seemed fairly normal. She did the whole proselytization thing, but didn't seem that messed up.
 
I can't think of any podcasts or other recordings but a good source of information is Huston Smith's The Illustrated World's Religions: Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions I used it as a text book durring a comparitive relgion class. It's fairly informative and easy to read.
 
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