The CIA's World Factbook gives the world population as 7,021,836,029 (July 2012 est.) and the distribution

of religions: Christian 31.59%

Muslim 23.2% Hindu 15.0%

Buddhist 7.1% Sikh 0.35%

Jewish 0.22% Baha'i 0.11%

other religions 10.95% non-religious 9.66%

atheists 2.01%.

Pantheism

• Pantheism is the belief that God and the material world are one and the same thing and that God is present in everything

• Reincarnation.• The symbol of

Naturalistic Pantheism is the Spiral.

Polytheism

• The worship of or belief in more than one deity, especially several deities

Monotheism

• The belief that there is only one God, as found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

• The truth of this one God is reviled in Sacred writings.

Hindus

• For Hindus, the highest of all truths is believed to be the truth of all religions.

Atheism

• Atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods.

• No adequately explain the existence of the universe.

• No rational basis for determining good and evil, or the human need for absolute moral standards

Religion of AtheismEvolution: No God and no answers

• 1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

• 2. Where did matter come from?

• 3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

• 4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

• 5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

• 6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

• 7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

• 8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

BuddhismThe Goal• Most people have heard

of nirvana. It has become equated with a sort of eastern version of heaven. Actually, nirvana simply means cessation. It is the cessation of passion, aggression and ignorance; the cessation of the struggle to prove our existence to the world, to survive.. We no longer need to manipulate things as they are into things as we would like them to be.

• Buddhism teaches that the question of God's existence is meaningless.

• Buddha taught that a person can escape the cycle of reincarnation and enter nirvana only by following the "Noble Eight-fold Path", a strict ethical system. Buddhist teachings include dedication to meditation.

• At its root, Buddhism is a form of agnosticism or at least practical atheism. It provides no answers about the ultimate meaning of existence.

Islam

The Goal• A sensual Paradise

where believing men are rewarded by being wed to 72 virgins.

• Women will be provided with only one man, and they "will be satisfied with him”.

Islam: Six Articles of Faith

• Muslims God:– There is one God. The Muslim name for God

is Allah, which is simply Arabic for "the (al) God (Ilah)."

• Muslim Prophets:– Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is the last and

greatest of the messengers of God. He is not divine in any way