Hmm... how does this account for the population of China? Even if there
were no other Buddhists in the world, all the natural religions were
located in China(which I assume would be Taoism), and all Confucists were
located in China, this would still leave over 0.7 billion Chinese having no
religion-- has Christianity become the predominant religion in China, or is
there a large number of athiests?(maybe Maoists are under-reporting their
figures) Do either of these options seem reasonable? I really don't think
so. If these figures *are* right, it seems that under 80% of the world's
population even has a religion, supreme being or not. (if I've done my math
right) However, I don't think not belonging to an organized religion
implies that one does not believe in a supreme being, or vica versa. So, I
would say the 95% figure is probably an overshot, and at the very least it
is not grounded with solid evidence.
Geoff.