![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I ran across this while reading the thought-provoking discussion that you can start here and follow links to responses and feedback like I did.
But here's the graph.
What's the difference between the 12.7% of the world's population who are "non-religious" and the 2.5% that are "atheist"?
I mean, the place it comes from helpfully describes non-religious as "people with no religion, agnostics, freethinkers, humanists, secularists, etc." but I really don't understand what it is about "atheists" that puts them in a separate category from those. Most freethinkers, agnostics, humanists, and secularists are atheist.
I don't get it.
But here's the graph.
What's the difference between the 12.7% of the world's population who are "non-religious" and the 2.5% that are "atheist"?
I mean, the place it comes from helpfully describes non-religious as "people with no religion, agnostics, freethinkers, humanists, secularists, etc." but I really don't understand what it is about "atheists" that puts them in a separate category from those. Most freethinkers, agnostics, humanists, and secularists are atheist.
I don't get it.
