Billions of people _say_ they believe in god. It's very different. -- When you analyze church attendance, it drops to roughly 50% instead of 85% of the popula

Billions of people _say_ they believe in god. It's very different. -- When you analyze church attendance, it drops to roughly 50% instead of 85% of the population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_attendance#Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_attendance#Demographics If you start to investigate many aspects of religious belief, like how many christians read the bible, the numbers drop drastically to less than 15% https://www.statista.com/statistics/299433/bible-readership-in-the-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/299433/bible-readership-... This demonstrates that we cannot rely on self-reporting to understand religious belief. In practice, most people are closer to atheists than believers.