Christianity Declining

From 2010 to 2020, these countries saw over 10% of their population stop describing themselves as Christian: Australia (-20%), Chile (-18%), Uruguay (-17%), the USA (-14%), Canada (-14%), the UK (-13%), Austria (-12%), Sweden (-12%), Switzerland (-12%), Ireland (-11%), France (-11%) and Belgium (-10%), with Finland and Spain close behind.

The largest increase in Christianity in a country in that period was in Mozambique (+5.0%).

See humanreligions.info/christianity.html section #2 on Worldwide Numbers.

Souls and Mind

On www.humantruth.info/souls.html

Buddhism and Women

As in other world religions, the religious hierarchy in Buddhism is male-dominated, causing ongoing gender discrimination both in monasteries and in wider Buddhist society. Buddhist texts sometimes "equal the worst anti-women polemics of any religion".

https://www.humanreligions.info/buddhism_women.html

Afghanistan's Religious Culture Holds it Back

Added to section #9 of the HTF page on Afghanistan: Tadjbakhsh (2011) argued that Afghanistan cannot be fixed by Western attempts to create top-down democratic institutions nor by the addition of liberal social values: the religious-based culture simply won't allow it. History proved him right. www.humantruth.info/afghanistan.html

Buddhism 's Eightfold Path: Right Speech

Buddhism's Eightfold Path step #3 is Right Speech: it teaches that to be wise, you must avoid lies, slander, promoting division, using abusive language and careless gossip. It should be part of the End-User Licence Agreement for doing anything online. Add as Section #1 to www.humanreligions.info/debating.html, as it predates similar statements in the Bible and the Qur'an.