Countries and religion

A while ago I saw a post talking about the "countries and religion". If I copied it right, this is how it went:

• 193 countries
• 67 roman catholic
• 49 islamic
• 49 protestant
• 14 eastern orthodox
• 3 hindu
• 1 jewish

I am sure many people will have issues with this and will try to use those issues to try to de-valuate the message which is:

Every religion has multiple countries, why do people say that the Jews are not entitled to one.

I don't really like this argument because when we talk about Jewish country we don't (just) mean the Jewish religion. We mean the Jewish people.

Some of my observations:

• I don't know where the number of 193 countries came from, and where the other numbers came from, however they don't add up to 193.
• Many people, especially in the western world will call themselves atheists and will feel offended by calling their country catholic or protestant.
• Even people who are religious will try to point out that one of the advancements was the separation of church and country. Well, first of all we might notice it is talking about separating the church, the institute or the institutional religion. It is not about separating religion from country. In fact even on Wikipedia, in the info page of every country you will find the numbers showing the percentage of people based on their religion.

I just looked at Hungary where it says:

Religion (2022 census)
        42.5% Christianity
            29.2% Catholicism
            9.8% Calvinism
            3.5% other Christian
    16.1% no religion
    1.3% others
    40.1% unanswered

France

Religion (2023)
    51% no religion
    38% Christianity
    10% Islam
    1% other

Pakistan

Religion
    96.3% Islam (official)
    2.2% Hinduism
    1.4% Christianity
    0.1% other

United Kingdom

Religion (2021/22)
    46.5% Christianity
    37.8% no religion
    6.0% Islam
    1.6% Hinduism
    0.8% Sikhism
    0.4% Buddhism
    0.4% Judaism
    0.6% other
    5.9% not stated

India

Religion (2011)
    79.8% Hinduism
    14.2% Islam
    2.3% Christianity
    1.7% Sikhism
    0.7% Buddhism
    0.4% Jainism
    0.23% unaffiliated
    0.65% other

Israel

Religion (2016)
        73% Judaism
            33% Hiloni
            24% Masorti
            9% Dati
            7% Haredi
    18.1% Islam
    1.9% Christianity
    1.6% Druze
    4.8% others

The one about Israel brings us to a very interesting point. It says 73% Judaism and including in that (!!!) it has 33% Hiloni - which basically means non-religious, and 24% Masorti - which means "traditional". Then comes 9% Dati that translates to "religious" and 7% Haredi which is probably best correlated to the "ultra-orthodox", though I am not sure if that is how the English word is used.

Separation of church from country

It is clear that even in the countries where the church was separated from the country there is a clear leader in the dominating religion. Even if in some places no-religion has higher percentage.

There is a strange case if using Hebrew words on the English-language wikipedia page and putting both non-religious groups under the religion. I wonder if this happens in any other country.

Conclusion

Probably I should have more conclusions here, but I am just thinking aloud.