From what I have heard, Koreans certainly have the largest population with several thousand. Australians number in the low hundreds. The numbers from many Western countries are higher than is obvious because there are a lot of returned Chinese who have changed their citizenship.

I think it's OK if religion are unwilling and unable to dominate people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

JJ, (is that really your full given name?) I'm just completely fascinated by this claim: "there is a God. I speak from personal experience". Would you please care to elaborate. Thanks.

ps: "Guess we'll find out who is "right" when we die" - interesting theological claim, and when I say 'interesting', I mean 'tired and fatuous'. I think any non-believer who, upon his death, 'woke' to find himself in some form of afterlife would be highly surprised, then probably go into denial, then most likely think "oh b*gger, I was wrong". But of course, learn to accept the evidence presented to them, as that is the foundation of the non-believer's world view - evidence, not blind guesswork. Of course, we'd all be in hell anyway, no matter if we'd helped people our entire lives, because, remember this folks, its not about what we do, its all about faith.

One final thing, which is relevant to the points that Horse was making yesterday about the kindness of Christians, is that it is interesting to look at the countries around the world that actually exhibit the greatest compassion for their citizens. Countries like Sweden, Denmark and Norway (and even Cuba while we're at it) care for their poor to a much higher degree than most others, and also happen to have some of the lowest levels of religious belief in the world. On the flip-side, the hardcore republican right-wing in the US are largely drawn from the evangelical christian movement, and we are all familiar with the level of compassion they show for their fellow citizens (in economic terms).....and the way they treat those (Obama, for example, or "the anti-Christ" as he is known to many) who propose modestly progressive taxation to correct this abhorrent disregard for those in need.

Yours godlessly, Richard.

join the church of the flying spaghetti monster!

may you be touched by his noodly appendage!

Ramen!

Christianity, it was said, launched endless bloody wars ("More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world," author Gore Vidal said. Christianity condoned slavery. Christianity fostered Hitler. Christianity oppressed science (remember Galileo). And so on … and on.

oh, interesting match.

maybe it is time to consult Paul the Octopus in Oberhausen for divine wisdom before he goes to see God. dont forget the two common live mussels, amen.

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.

Jimmy Swaggart

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
- Friederich Nietzsche

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
-Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek