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Posted: 07/12/10 02:14 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationI just learned that Dwight Schrute from the office is Bahai, a religion of about 5 million people. It got me thinking, why do people join these tiny fringe religions like bahai, mormon, jew . . . Why would you add more difficulty to your life when it's so easy to join a big religion?
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Posted: 07/12/10 02:30 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationwtf, why wouldn't someone want to be jewish?
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Posted: 07/12/10 02:32 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationall else being equal, why would you want to be in a group of a few million instead of being in a group of a few billion?
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Posted: 07/12/10 03:23 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationThere are a billion Indians and a huge chunk of them live in poverty; ditto the Chinese, despite having a nat'l GDP 4x that of India's. Consider also the ~1 billion muslims globally and the QOL of non-sheiks in the middle east. Get your Aristotelian "something of a greater quantity is better" bullshit out of here.
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Posted: 07/12/10 03:27 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationfirst of all you're a poor. second, what does any of that have to do with my question? i said, all else being equal, why would you want to be in a group of a few million when you could be in a group of billions?
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Posted: 07/12/10 06:10 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationWhy would you join a religion based on how many members it has?
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Posted: 07/12/10 07:02 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationWhy wouldn't you, all else being equal?
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Posted: 07/12/10 10:27 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationbecause most people are usually wrong
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Posted: 07/13/10 08:09 AM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationSo the 99.99% who follow major religions are wrong, but the tiny minority who follow fringe religions like bahai/jew/mormon are right?
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Posted: 07/13/10 03:47 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationNo, they are all wrong.
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Posted: 07/12/10 08:43 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationThis is like asking "Why would someone want to attend a small, exclusive university when they could attend a huge public university?" or "Why would someone want a Mercedes when they could have a Chevy?"
Popularity is not positively correlated with quality. Islam and Catholicism are widely considered TTT and they're 2 of the world's largest religious. Issues include excluding women from the clergy, homophobia, sexual abuse, low quality "teachings", being on the wrong side of history many times, etc.
Robin's point about nations holds true as well. Would you rather be the average Indonesian/Indian or the average Swiss/Austrian?
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Posted: 07/12/10 08:59 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationCrazy pentecostal bullshit is overtaking catholicism in latin america, to my chagrin. There's a lot wrong with Catholicism, but I can appreciate the complexity of its inner workings, structure and mechanisms, even if they have much more to do with control over the masses than any kind of religious belief. In fact, I respect the Catholic church more because of that.
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Posted: 07/13/10 08:08 AM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationWhat part of "all else being equal" do you two not understand? Wait, do you think that joining a fringe religion is going to make it easier for you to gain success somehow? That's ridiculous as the opposite is obviously true. Whatever else you do, your being in a fringe religion as opposed to the popular one will certainly create some degree of prejudice against you and hold you back.
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Posted: 07/12/10 10:26 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationwhy join any?
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Posted: 07/14/10 09:21 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationFree crackers and wine.
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Posted: 07/12/10 02:18 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationActually, who on here is mormon or jewish? and why? do you really think 99.99% of the world is wrong and you're right?
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Posted: 07/12/10 04:23 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationIsn't mormonism the fastest growing religion? All religions have to start somewhere. Christianity wasn't always so large. Jews greatly outnumbered Xtians at one point.
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Posted: 07/12/10 04:57 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationany links to religion growth rates?
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Posted: 07/13/10 07:18 AM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/LDSGrowth.png
The religion growth rates don't break Christianity down into its subcomponents. However, wiki has LSD membership growing at 2.52%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
Islam growing at 2.13%, Baha'i Faith at 2.28%, Zoroastrianism at 2.65%. These are the top 3. http://fastestgrowingreligion.com/numbers.html
LSD is about the same size as the Jews in total numbers. LSD = 2x Baha'i Faith members and 5x Zoroastrianism members.
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Posted: 07/13/10 08:11 AM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationso it's not the fastest growing religion
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Posted: 07/12/10 10:28 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationpost your religion so that I may mock it mercilessly.
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Posted: 07/13/10 08:12 AM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationYou don't think it's funny to read about a guy joining bahai, then quitting it, and then commenting that his quitting was justified partly because the arabic letters spell "evil" when viewed as english letters?
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Posted: 07/13/10 08:21 AM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS Violationwow hinduism and judaism are getting raped by conversions.
Religion Total Natural (births) Conversions Growth Christianity 25,210,195 22,708,799 2,501,396 1.36% Islam 22,588,676 21,723,118 865,558 2.13% Hinduism 12,533,734 13,194,111 -660,377 1.69% Buddhism 3,687,527 3,530,918 156,609 1.09% Sikhism 392,638 363,677 28,961 1.87% Judaism 124,515 194,962 -70,447 0.91% Bahá'í 143,491 117,158 26,333 2.28% Confucianism 44,305 55,739 -11,434 0.73% Jainism 34,951 74,539 -39,588 0.87% Shinto -31,993 8,534 -40,527 -1.09% Taoism 25,242 25,397 -155 1.00% Zoroastrianism 58,471 45,391 13,080 2.65%
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Posted: 07/13/10 01:38 PM Flag: Best-Of Helpful NSFW Spam TOS ViolationWow, the number of people converting away from Judaism is shockingly high.
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