THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, July 18, 1995 TAG: 9507180006
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 23 lines
Your July 7 correction on the editorial page needs correction.
If you define ``majority'' as more than half, and if your figures of 1.01 billion Muslims, 0.75 billion Hindus, and 0.33 billion Buddhists are correct, then the total number of people of those religions equals 2.09 billion.
That number is greater than your total of Christians (1.87 billion). Therefore, you could say that Christianity is the world's largest religion but its members do not represent a ``majority'' of religious people in the world.
EUGENE A. DENISON
Suffolk, July 7, 1995 by CNB