What percentage of the population?

Here is how I can classify things from my perspective. I believe that the majority of people (say 80%) sincerely decide to follow a religious path simply because of the curb appeal. (do this and you will live forever,) However, once they adopt the religion they will either become only mildly associated with it only professing by name or will recognize its inadequacy. If this happen they either reject the teaching of that belief system or that of religion entirely. The other twenty percent are the "Radicals", so to speak. They are the ones that profoundly justify their beliefs and truly can live by it. These radicals exist on both sides of religion playing field from missionaries and martyrs to hardcore PhD atheists. These people are not only associated with their belief system but also play a role in how those beliefs are defined. While the radicals may not all be in influential positions such as pastors, they have certainly made a direct decision with a degree of certainty on where they stand.

Also realize these are very generalized observations, and cannot be scientifically determined. And even if a survey was taken, people would even invoke a strong bias as self examination often prove self glorification as people would simply put what they want to be not as they actually are. It is therefore impossible by man's standards to get any reliable answer to this question.

Even I will invoke some bias as I am a follower of Christ the Lord believe in salvation through faith and that every word in the Bible is true. I have developed these beliefs through rigorous justifications (thus my philosophy) and also realize that ever if I remove myself from these conditions entirely I still base my thesis on personal experience.

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Or in (really) short. 80% probably just go along with a religion without much thought or foundation and twenty percent will to some degree live what they profess.

The only absolute truth comes from the Lord. Everything else is debatable.

Can't really put a number on it, however, in strict religious practices, many are born into it and a certain percentage of people with beliefs forced upon them will question it. For fear of rejection, they will pretend to believe. Odd question.

The only culture I can really comment on is Christians and I've only met two people that actually seemed to genuinely believe in a god and tried to follow the Bible. The rest are only Christian for about an hour a week if they even make that or if the subject comes up.

I"m AGNOSTIC... Good question! I think a huge percentage of the population do fake.... The guy above me "poems" is so funny! I bet he loves little kids in a sick way (thats his reason for faking this bogus god thing)

Minimum of 85%.

87% while the other 13% find out for themselves

98% of religious people

Mother Teresa did, from time to time.

i think at least half of all religous people are just faking

65%