RELIGIOUS FAITH - INDIVIDUAL OR SOCIAL
St Peters Basilica in Vatican City is the biggest church in the world. According to UN estimate the world population at the mid year 2023 is 805 crores. (The estimated population of the world as on 2026 is 8.3 billion ) As per the broad estimate by the sociologist Phil Zuckerman, there are about 75 crores people in the world do not believe in the existence of a God. Therefore, the remaining 730 crores people believe in some form of God and follow some religion and their prescribed observance. There are about 4,000 recognised religions in the world. About 83% of the religious population in the world would fall in 12 major religions. When these are the basic statistics of the religions in the world, we discuss below whether religion and it's God are an individual matter or a social one. No man in the world has ever seen God or spoken to Him. Religion is scripted by man within his knowledge as per his needs. However, if we strictly rely on science and the human body...