Dec 07 2012

Have you been counted?

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Participate in the Atheist Census It’s quick and easy, and then we get to see the stats, too.

Currently, the most godless country in the world seems to be…Brazil. Somebody is doing a good job of promoting it down there, I think.

Get on the list. As a bonus, I think every participant gets the Mark of the Beast and is automatically enrolled in a sweepstakes where the grand prize is an evening with the Whore of Babylon. Also, any Christians who try to skew the poll will be instantly damned to hell by Jesus. Just warning you.

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Rev. BigDumbChimp

7 December 2012 at 12:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

BUT THEY’LL USE THIS TO TRACK US DOWN AND TAKE OUR GUNS

OHHHHhhhhh

Atheist census.

Sorry, wrong paranoia subject.
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Big Boppa

7 December 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Wow. That didn’t take long.

Atheist Census experiences a high volume of entries and to make sure that everyone has the chance to submit and confirm their details we had to temporarily disable the submission form.
Thank you for understanding and please come back in a few minutes!
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Kevin Anthoney

7 December 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Looks like you’ve melted it:

Atheist Census experiences a high volume of entries and to make sure that everyone has the chance to submit and confirm their details we had to temporarily disable the submission form.

Apparently, 4,484 is “a high volume of entries”. This doesn’t bode well.
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cswella

7 December 2012 at 12:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Currently not accepting submissions
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Beatrice

7 December 2012 at 12:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

As a bonus, I think every participant gets the Mark of the Beast and is automatically enrolled in a sweepstakes where the grand prize is an evening with the Whore of Babylon.

*squee*

I’m sure the Whore of Babylon would have a lot of interesting stories to tell.

(I’m sure whoever entered that as the grand prize considered that not all contestants are men *khm*)
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PZ Myers

7 December 2012 at 12:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oops.
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Ogvorbis

7 December 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Apparently, it was the sudden influx as soon as it was posted on Pharyngula. The initial clickfest has subsided and they allowed me to submit to them.
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michaeld

7 December 2012 at 12:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Its working now for me. Waiting for my post data email….
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Caine, Fleur du mal

7 December 2012 at 12:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I can’t get in to get counted right now. I’ll keep trying.
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marcos viniciusobino cunha junior

7 December 2012 at 12:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

There are times when I feel proud to be Brazilian. This is one of them. It’s good to know that there are so many atheists over here, specially if you consider that this is still one of the most catholic countries in the world. People seem to be waking up.
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chigau (無)

7 December 2012 at 12:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I just submitted.
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Beatrice

7 December 2012 at 12:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The number is slowly going up when I refresh, so some submissions are obviously getting through, but I keep getting the message mentioned in #3.
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Beatrice

7 December 2012 at 12:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Managed, just waiting for the confirmation email.
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Randomfactor

7 December 2012 at 12:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Counted. I think the US contingent will edge out the Brazilians but it may be a close shave.
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microraptor

7 December 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Just got the confirmation email.

Good stuff: the numbers keep going up. I’m really surprised that India is currently smoking everyone else, I wonder if it will retain its lead.

Bad stuff: 75.4% of surveyed people are male- which means that atheists aren’t doing enough to attract women, though I guess anyone who hangs out here could have guessed that already.
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microraptor

7 December 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Derp, Brazil, not India.
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alkisvonidas

7 December 2012 at 12:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

So… would I have to go to my town of birth?
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Caine, Fleur du mal

7 December 2012 at 12:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Okay, waiting on the validation email.
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Caine, Fleur du mal

7 December 2012 at 1:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m validated and counted. Not only are the numbers on women low, my age range is barely a blip. (55-64).
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Beatrice

7 December 2012 at 1:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Those who want to look up reports for individual countries, careful! You can only generate 5 reports per hour.
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michaeld

7 December 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@microraptor

It’s better or worse depending on where you look (you can filter by country). Canada and the USA have around to 65% male (not great but better) where as Brazil is 83% male. The slanting of the data towards Brazil might also explain why there are so many ex catholics.
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graham

7 December 2012 at 1:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“an evening with the Whore of Babylon”.

Any chance of swapping that for an evening with Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six?

I too am getting the message reported in #3. Head-count is now over 5 000. Not really a big enough number to draw conclusions about worldwide atheism….
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microraptor

7 December 2012 at 1:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, I figured that Brazil was the reason for ex-Catholics being so prevalent.
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dustinarand

7 December 2012 at 1:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Only one entry from China? Having lived there I can tell you most people there don’t believe in God. How exactly are they using this data to extrapolate some meaningful numbers?
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microraptor

7 December 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I doubt that they are yet. But the conclusion that comes to mind is using it to compare their responses to the percentage of the population that’s identified as atheist in each country to figure out how much of the total group places like Pharyngula are reaching.
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Caine, Fleur du mal

7 December 2012 at 1:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Microraptor:

Yeah, I figured that Brazil was the reason for ex-Catholics being so prevalent.

You’re underestimating the reach of the catholic church. I was just counted and tallied up another ‘catholicism’ and I’m in the U.S.
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Fanty

7 December 2012 at 1:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They ran this thing earlier this year and it ended up getting shut down for some reason, just a day after I put in some effort to promote it on some forums I frequent. Was a bit disappointing. But oh well, I’ve gotten myself counted once again, but I’m still waiting for the email.
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atheistallianceinternational

7 December 2012 at 1:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Thank you very much for supporting Atheist Census PZ!
#3 – it’s not the number of entries that’s high and causing issues, it’s the rate of submissions – I think primarily thanks to Pharyngula at the moment!
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Sastra

7 December 2012 at 1:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Done.

Small point … but why did AAI use the Dawkins’ A in the video, instead of the more general atheist symbol — the one they themselves had a hand in helping select?

(It’s my avatar, if you’re wondering which one I mean; gaining in popularity and more distinctive (and less Dawkins) than the other.)
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blindrobin

7 December 2012 at 1:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This is a bit late but uhhhh… One need not be male to enjoy a tryst with the Whore of Babylon.
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eoraptor

7 December 2012 at 2:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Beatrice @7

Who said the Whore of Babylon is only interested in men? In any event, there must be a Gigolo of Babylon somewhere.
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eoraptor

7 December 2012 at 2:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Beatrice @5

I countz gud two!
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eoraptor

7 December 2012 at 2:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Actually, I’d like to substitute the grand prize for an evening with Hypatia of Alexandria — you know, The Librarian!
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Beatrice

7 December 2012 at 2:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

eoraptor,

Well, when a night with a whore is a prize somewhere, it’s almost certain that the whole thing is geared towards straight men. Women are hardly in the picture, lesbian or not.
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Beatrice

7 December 2012 at 2:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Actually, I’d like to substitute the grand prize for an evening with Hypatia of Alexandria — you know, The Librarian!

Oooh, I like this prize better.
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nanahuatzin

7 December 2012 at 2:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sorry for the commercial, this is for the spanish speaking atheist

We are currently transmitting “El primer congreso mexicano de ateismo”.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/congreso-mexicano-de-ateismo

(sorry for the quality… currently transmiting from the “Escuela nacional de antropologia e historia”… so the internet here seems to be a prehispanic leftover…

It will be today and tomorrow.

http://ateomx.org.mx/articulos/comunicados-de-prensa/26-prensa/37-programa-para-el-primer-congreso-mexicano-de-ateismo.html

Currently discussing about Borges
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Agent Silversmith, Honey Powered

7 December 2012 at 2:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Babylon? Isn’t that where all the world’s languages appeared fully formed via a godly fingersnap, instead of going through that pesky development process?

Signed the census. I’d like my prize to be an evening with Epicurus, and could you please hold the sun still, to stretch the evening out? Thanksomuch.
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Lofty

7 December 2012 at 3:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Hah, one of the benefits of living on the arse of the world, when Kylie Sturgess put up the link last night all went swimmingly. Maybe y’all should get up earlier?
Well anyway, that demonstrates the power of Free PeeZ.
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laisa

7 December 2012 at 3:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Ok. Finally, the page loaded… only to tell me the submission form is disabled. :(
Also, apparenly no Uruguayans have been counted yet…
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Chuck

7 December 2012 at 3:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I prefer the Mother of Abominations over the Whore of Babylon. Just sounds sexier.
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consciousness razor

7 December 2012 at 3:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

We are currently transmitting “El primer congreso mexicano de ateismo”.

Looks like it’s going to be a really interesting program. I wish my Spanish wasn’t so awful.
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Dubravko J.

7 December 2012 at 3:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Man, I was the first from Croatia to participate, and now there are already 8 Croats counted! Believe you me, for Croatia, that’s a nice number, considering that the page is up for quite a short time.
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John Morales

7 December 2012 at 4:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m not very keen on being told what to do.

So, no. I shan’t participate.
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icarus

7 December 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I am Brazilian, I’m happy with the numbers :-)

Brazilians use many social networks, so it is normal that we’re in first place now, due to disclosure.

But Brazil is an extremely religious country, so I believe, Brazil should fall in the rankings.
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cswella

7 December 2012 at 4:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Where’s the entry for Vatican City?
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Nick Gotts (formerly KG)

7 December 2012 at 4:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m not very keen on being told what to do.

So, no. I shan’t participate. – John Morales

Your courage in standing out against the pressure to do so is truly awesome.
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Nick Gotts (formerly KG)

7 December 2012 at 4:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

So… would I have to go to my town of birth? – alkisvonadis

No, of course not! You have to go to the town where a semi-mythical royal ancestor was allegedly born.
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=8)-DX

7 December 2012 at 4:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Hey. I’m a card-carrying atheist. My local supermarket benefit card has the mark of the beast on it already.
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John Morales

7 December 2012 at 4:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

[meta]

Nick, heh.

More to the point, it explicitly puts on record that PZ’s ~~groupies~~ ~~acolytes~~ ~~minions~~ regular blog commenters are at times refractory.
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=8)-DX

7 December 2012 at 5:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PZ’s ~~groupies acolytes minions regular blog commenters~~spawn are at times refractory.

There FIFY.
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consciousness razor

7 December 2012 at 5:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

More to the point, it explicitly puts on record that PZ’s ~~groupies acolytes minions~~ regular blog commenters are at times refractory.

I refuse to accept that. It’s done no such thing.
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Stardrake

7 December 2012 at 5:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m in. Number 7,509.

As for the Whore of Babylon–I dunno, Downbelow’s not such a nice place to visit…..
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=8)-DX

7 December 2012 at 5:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Also, the site seems to be overloaded (with 7.6K signatures??), is someone running a DOS attack or what? I demand to be counted!
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robro

7 December 2012 at 5:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Census!? You can’t do that!!! God doesn’t like them. God will be angry. God will send a plague to punish us…just like the Israelites after he induced David to take a census.

Also note: the Whore of Babylon can be male or female…perhaps both. Or even neither. Who knows.
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John Morales

7 December 2012 at 6:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

[OT]

robro, the Whore of Babylon is an allegorical concept, and because it’s a reified weltanschauung contrary to the Abrahamic ethos, it’s personified as female.
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=8)-DX

7 December 2012 at 6:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Whore of Babylon.. wasn’t that supposed to be Rome? Or Nero? Shit I’m getting my Revelation/Divine Comedy mixed up.

I’d go with a succubus. Or incubus. I’m not gay but the Rocky Horror Show has educated me of the benefits of hypersexual beings.
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JohnnieCanuck

7 December 2012 at 6:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Seems a bit odd to use the total number of respondents to establish the competition metric for countries.

Using the only two countries whose population figures I know, Canadians as a percentage are responding at more than twice the rate of USAnians
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F [disappearing]

7 December 2012 at 6:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

alkisvonidas says:

So… would I have to go to my town of birth?

No, that never happened anywhere ever.
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=8)-DX

7 December 2012 at 7:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Status notice: the site seems to be down? WTF did they host this on? (unreliablehosting.net?)
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John Morales

7 December 2012 at 7:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

[=8)-DX, slashdotted.

(There’s a slight difference between the reach of Kylie’s and PZ’s blogs ;) )
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Lofty

7 December 2012 at 8:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Overloaded by HordeHits. HeHe.
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sention

7 December 2012 at 8:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sounds like we should also be registering ourselves here!

http://www.politicususa.com/pastor-wants-atheist-registry-to-track-atheists-like-sex-offenders.html
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Oenotrian

8 December 2012 at 1:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Down for maintenance, apparently.
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slowdjinn

8 December 2012 at 6:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They’re now saying it’s a DoS attack.
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=8)-DX

8 December 2012 at 7:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Atheist Census is offline as the result of a denial of service (DoS) attack.

We don’t know who is behind the attack but it seems to be a reasonable conclusion that they do not like atheists being counted.

We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Don’t think it’s just pharyngulites. You can usually easily distinguish DoS attacks from regular (even heavy) traffic.
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mattkovach

8 December 2012 at 12:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

On 7 December Atheist Alliance International launched Atheist Census at http://www.atheistcensus.com, a global project to count and collect information on the world’s atheists. The response to the site was very positive, with well over 8,000 peop
le contributing before it was taken offline as a result of a DoS (denial of service) attack, less than 24 hours after launch. We do not know who is behind the attack, but it’s a reasonable conclusion that they do not like atheists being counted. We are working hard to get Atheist Census online again.

Carlos A. Diaz
President, Atheist Alliance International
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mikemike

8 December 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The atheist movement is often said to be unwelcoming to women.
The grand prize is an evening with a prostitute?
See any connections?

Male or female, prostitutes are usually abused and suffering peoples. Joking about it (even mythical prostitutes) isn’t funny.
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DutchA

8 December 2012 at 4:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Wanted to be counted. And since “(…)they do not like atheists being counted.” I will be back.
Can’t keep a good atheist down.
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khms

9 December 2012 at 8:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Hmm.

First saw it at Kylie’s.

Couldn’t find any link to anywhere that would actually ask for my data.

Now it’s at PZ’s, and all I get is that DOS message.

Getting just slightly irritated.
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Fred Salvador - The Public Sucks; Fuck Hope

9 December 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Male or female, prostitutes are usually abused and suffering peoples.

Way to perpetuate a stereotype, champ! Some prostitutes are certainly that; then again so are some cleaners, farmhands, factory workers, etc etc.

Census still isn’t working. Religionists haxxorin’ for God!
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=8)-DX

9 December 2012 at 1:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Male or female, prostitutes are usually abused and suffering peoples. Joking about it (even mythical prostitutes) isn’t funny.

I guess these kind of references happen because a) many atheists don’t consider prostitution / sex bad per-se and b) Christians (who PZ was parodying with his WoB/Satan language) often portray atheists as sexual perverts and hedonists.

Child murder and cannibalism are also not generally funny things to happen. But I still have a baby sammich for breakfast every morning.
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=8)-DX

9 December 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

To clarify my point a) – many atheists consider a slut/prostitute positive attituted to be much more constructive than the usual shaming that goes on by the major religions.