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The Indian census does not explicitly count atheists. [5] In the 2011 Census of India, the response form required the respondent to choose from six options under religion. The "Others" option was meant for minor or tribal religions as well as atheists and agnostics. [63] The religion data from 2011 Census of India was released
God rewards him by giving his descendants an everlasting priesthood. God also tells the Israelites to consider the Midianites their enemies. A new census gives the total number of men from twenty years and upward as 601,730, and the number of the Levites from the age of one month and upward as 23,000. The land shall be divided by lot.
The Zuckerman data on the table below only reflect the number of people who have an absence of belief in a deity only (atheists, agnostics). Does not include the broader number of people who do not identify with a religion such as deists, spiritual but not religious, pantheists, New Age spiritualism, etc.
Hitchens also outlines the inaccuracy in Luke's attempt to triangulate three world events of the time with Jesus's birth: the census ordered by Augustus of the entire Roman world, the reign of King Herod in Judea and that of Quirinius as governor of Syria (see the Census of Quirinius).
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The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
[1] [2] In global studies, the number of people without a religion is usually higher than the number of people without a belief in a deity [3] [4] and the number of people who agree with statements on lacking a belief in a deity is usually higher than the number of people who self-identify as "atheists". [3] [1]
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