If your looking for the top 50 list, click here.
Part A: Divided by religion
Part B: Gender
Part A
64% of the top fifty YouTube channels defined as religious was from Christian Evangelicals.
22% was from Muslims.
6% was from Mormons.
6% was from Catholics.
2% was from Buddhists.
No Jewish, Sikh, New Age or other religious channels made the list.
It is interesting the to note that the percents generally match the pressure to spread their beliefs. Furthermore this gives us an idea of how willing followers of the faith are willing to subscribe to major YouTube channels that tend to focus on or represent their faith.
A Pi-graph can be viewed using this link: https://www.meta-chart.com/share/untitled-4451
Part B
Also interesting to note is the percentage of channels that are predominately male, female or mixed. Mixed is defined as having at least 40% of the opposite gender. Channels such as Jefferson Bethke is considered male dominate because most people who watch his videos watch them when he`s in them.
82% were male dominated.
12% were mixed.
6% were female.
A pi-graph can be viewed here: https://www.meta-chart.com/share/untitled-4484
The popularity of male-dominated channels isn`t entirely surprising when you consider that in Evangelical Christianity the vast majority of women aren`t pastors, in Islam imams can`t be female, and in Catholicism women can`t be priests.
Even the most popular Buddhist channel features a male monk. The few channels that are female-dominated are Evangelical music channels.
The top male-dominated channels are: Jerferson Bethke (1st), Anthem Lights (3rd) and The Merciful Servant (4th).
The top mixed channels are: SkilletBand (2nd) and Mormon Channel (5th).
The two female-dominated were KariJobeVEVO (18th) and FrancescaBattistelli (36th)
While the statistics may be surprising to some, the fact is that even in the secular realm of YouTube `Male-dominated` channels top the charts.
For example out of the top fifty most subscribed YouTube channels PewDiePie (4th), HolaSoyGerman (8th) and Smosh (9th) are all male dominated. Whereas female-dominated channels such as RihannaVEVO (11th), KatyPerryVEVO (12th) and JennaMarbles (15th) always fall behind. Still, it`s clear that the ``gender balance`` between the popular secular channels and the popular religious channels is significantly different.
To see the statistics for the top fifty secular channels click here.
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Fifty Most Popular "Religious" YouTube Channels List
I was wondering what the most popular YouTube channels are when it
comes to "religious channels"
I define a
religious channel as one that has the majority of its videos dealing with God,
Christianity, Islam, Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism to some
extent. This list excludes atheist channels, majority-comedy channels and
channels with non-English names.
1.) Jerferson Bethke whose channel was
formerly called bball1989 has 536, 838 subscribers as of June 3, 2015. His
most popular video is "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus|| Spoken
Word" which has 29,582,466 views. Its a
Christian Evangelical channel.
2.) SkilletBand has
392,194 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
3.) Anthem
Lights has 351,250 subscribers. Their
most popular video is a music video called "As Long As You Love
Me--Justin Bieber" which has 4,693,362 views. The channel Christian
Evangelical.
4.) The
Merciful Servant has subscribers 342,425 subscribers; its a Muslim
channel.
5.) Mormon Channel has
339,417 subscribers. As you say have guessed, it`s a Mormon channel.
6.) Reach Records that
features raps from popular Christian rapper Lacrea as well as others has
280,388 subscribers. The channel is Evangelical.
7.) Hillsong Worship
has 260,886 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel.
8.) NewsboysVEVO has 258,677 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
9.) Bethel Music has
257,969 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
10.) The Daily Reminder
has 257,729 subscribers. Its Muslim.
11.) Talk Islam
has 257,151 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel.
12.) ChrisTomlinVEVO
has 233,337 subscribers (even though its not his `official` channel.) Its
Evangelical.
13.) DigitalMimbar has
204,308 subscribers; its a Muslim channel.
14.) Jesus Culture
has 202,583
subscribers. Its Evangelical.
15.) TobyMacVEVO has
180,245 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
16.) Islamic Guidance
has 180,140 subscribers. Its Muslim.
17.) Muslim Speakers
has 161,747 subscribers. Its Muslim.
18.) KariJobeVEVO has
156,292 subscribers. Its also Evangelical.
19.) TheAnimaSeries has
138,442 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
20.) LivingWaters with
host Ray Comfort has 122,689 subscribers. Its also an Evangelical channel.
21.)P4CM (which stands
for "Passion for Christ Movement") has 122,349 subscribers. Its an
Evangelical channel.
22.) RELEVANT has
120,866 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel.
23.) LoveAllah328 has
117,303 subscribers. It's a Muslim channel.
24.) vatcan has 115,299
subscribers. (It`s Catholic.)
25.) TheProphetsPath
has 113,780 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel.
26.) The Skit Guys
has 112,224 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
27.) TheDeenShowTV
has 107,479
subscribers. Its a Muslim channel.
28.) imad07 has 98,723
subscribers and yet he hasn`t uploaded a video for three years (as of June,
2015) Its a Muslim channel.
29.) Mormon.org (which
includes the popular "I'm a Mormon" advertisements) has 97,233
subscribers.
30.) Paul Begley has
94,629 subscribers. He has an Evangelical channel.
31.)
CastingCrownsVEVO 89,735 subscribers. Its Evangelical.
32.) Mormon Tablenecle
Choir has 87,812 subscribers; it`s Mormon.
33.) Ill Be Honest
has 84,662 subscribers. It's Evangelical.
34.) Ravi
Zacharias International Ministries has 83,042 subscribers.
Its an Evangelical
Christian channel.
35.) Desiring God has
82,447 subscribers. Its another Evangelical channel.
36.)
FrancescaBattistelli has 79,599 subscribers. Its an Evangelical music channel.
37.) ComeToTruth has
68,399 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel.
38.) MandisaVEVO has
68,323 subscribers. It features songs from Evangelical singer Mandisa.
39.) MercymeVEVO, which
features songs from the Evangelical band has 63,827 subscribers.
40.) NickVujicicTV has 63,414 subscribers. Its yet another Evangelical
channel.
41.) Fr. Robert Barron
has 59,681 subscribers. Its a Roman Catholic channel.
42.) EWTN has 58,275
subscribers. Its a Roman Catholic channel.
43.)
BuddhistSoceityWA has 58,127 subscribers, it`s
a Buddhist channel.
44.) Grace to You has
57,469 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel.
45.) chaseGodtv has
57,209 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel.
46.) Wretched has 56,006 subscribers. Its
an Evangelical channel.
47.) ThirdDayVEVO has
51,044 subscribers. It features song from the popular Evangelical band Third
Day.
48.) JeremyCampVEVO
has subscribers 48,324. Its Evangelical. (There is also a channel called ``JeremyCampMusic`` which has 43,296 subscribers.)
49.) BDWmusic
has 43,476 subscribers, it features songs based on the Evangelical
Christian band Big Daddy Weave.
50.) Acts17Apologetics:
The ever controversial David Wood's channel takes 50th
place with 42,594 subscribers. His most popular video is Of Mosques
and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque which had 3,604,631 views. Its
Evangelical Christian.
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Best to Worse Provinces for Abortions
The
following is a list of Canadian provinces and territories from the lowest
reported abortion rates to the highest. It was created using 2013 data.
1.) PEI: No abortions were reported in 2013.
1.) PEI: No abortions were reported in 2013.
2.) Newfoundland: With a population of about 528, 000, 223 abortions were reported in 2013. 0.04% of children are aborted. Please note: Private abortion places did not report their numbers; they were the only ones in Canada not to.
3.) New Brunswick: With a population of 755,
464, 1,036 abortions were reported. 0.13%
of children are aborted.
4.) Saskatchewan: With a population of 1,106.200,
1,921 abortions were reported. 0.17% of children are aborted.
5.) Ontario: With a population of 13,550,900, 25,108 abortions were reported. 0.18% of children are aborted.
6.) British Colombia: With a populations of 4,582.600, 9,574 abortions were reported. 0.20% of children are aborted.
7.) Nova Scotia: With a population of 942.900, 2,077 abortions were reported. 0.22% are aborted.
8.) Nunavut: With a population of 35.400, 96
abortions were reported. 0.27% are aborted.
9.) Manitoba: With a population of 1,265,400, 3,873 were reported. 0.30% are aborted.
10.) Quebec: With a population of 8,154.000, 25,253
abortions were reported. 0.309% are aborted.
11.) Yukon: With a population of 36.400, 121 abortions. 0.332%
are aborted.
12.) Alberta: With a population of 4,007,200, 13,376
abortions were reported. 0.333% are aborted.
13.) Northwest territories: With
a population of 43.800, 211 abortions were reported. 0.48 of children are aborted.
Sources:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/abortion-in-canada-its-legal-but-is-it-184327430.html
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
How Bad is Secular Music?
Most Evangelicals have abandoned the idea that secular music is completely evil. They argue that certain songs although defined as secular have value, in a similar way that a poem may be beautiful even without specifically mentioning God. But we all agree that certain songs are harmful to our soul and shouldn't be listened to.
I wanted to know how bad secular songs were so I looked at the 100 most popular songs of the week; if they contradicted accepted Christian ethics (that are based on Scripture) in any way I recorded how they had done so.
Here's what I found:*
* Please note: This deals with the song lyrics, not the music video.
Songs examined that are not necessarily harmful: 14
See you Again
Sugar
Love Me Like You Do
Uptown Funk: Lusting after women and using the Hebrew word "Hallelujah" (which means "Praise be to [God's Sacred Name].
Trap Queen: Sexualizes a woman and promotes love of money.
Earned it: Promotes the idea that someone deserves praise, (when in reality they deserve Hell.)
GDFR: Exalts lusting over women and love of money.
Somebody: Exalts a life of risky drinking and of fornication.
Style: Unnecessarily refers to inmost dress. (Very close to acceptable.)
I wanted to know how bad secular songs were so I looked at the 100 most popular songs of the week; if they contradicted accepted Christian ethics (that are based on Scripture) in any way I recorded how they had done so.
Here's what I found:*
* Please note: This deals with the song lyrics, not the music video.
Songs examined that are not necessarily harmful: 14
See you Again
Sugar
Love Me Like You Do
Shut up and Dance
Thinking Out Loud
Want To Want Me (But runs on the edge of unacceptable because of exalted a women's body over her soul.)
Lay me down
Take Your Time
Shake It Off
I Want You To Know
Where Are U Now
I'm Not the Only One
Lips Are Movin
Budapest
Harmful: 27Shake It Off
I Want You To Know
Where Are U Now
I'm Not the Only One
Lips Are Movin
Budapest
Uptown Funk: Lusting after women and using the Hebrew word "Hallelujah" (which means "Praise be to [God's Sacred Name].
Trap Queen: Sexualizes a woman and promotes love of money.
Earned it: Promotes the idea that someone deserves praise, (when in reality they deserve Hell.)
GDFR: Exalts lusting over women and love of money.
Somebody: Exalts a life of risky drinking and of fornication.
Style: Unnecessarily refers to inmost dress. (Very close to acceptable.)
Post to be (Fornication and drug reference)
One More Time (swears)
Chains (The song makes reference to a women as ``warm as a devil`` but also says ``but I wouldn`t change this love.`
Talking Body (drug references, uses profanity and swears)
Nasty Freestyle (uses profanity)
Girl Crush (an honest song with an extreme coveting problem)
Hey Mama (sexual references relative to a slave-women and owner-man, instead of a Song of Solomon relation.)
Dear Future Husband (Assumes she deserves a man`s service contrary to the understanding that we deserve damnation for our sins. Has a valuable overall message otherwise.)
B*tch Better Have the Money (Profanity)
Blank Space (Uses God's Name in vain)
Time of Our Life (contains profanity and promotes a life style of fornication)
Four-five Seconds (swears)
Truffle Butter (glorifies fornication)
Honey, I'm Good (Once again: this song has good overall meaning but contains profanity regarding a women's rear-end.)
Blessings (contains profanity and exalts the self in pride)
Throw Sum Mo (contains profanity and promotes sexual-sin)
Take Me to Church (promotes the worship of a women and is filled with anti-Christian propaganda)
Worth It (exalts the self)
Slow Motion (promotes looking at a women sexually, whose likely not your wife.)
Ayo (contains profanity and promotes a life style of fornication)
Worth It (exalts the self)
Slow Motion (promotes looking at a women sexually, whose likely not your wife.)
Ayo (contains profanity and promotes a life style of fornication)
You Know You Like It (Supports general rebellion and immaturity: "I just wanna have some fun, don't tell me what can't be done"
Undecided: 1
Hallelujah (The phase "I was drunk and it didn’t mean a thing" isn't clear: Did it not mean a think because you won't be held accountable on Judgement Day or because in the end getting drunk achieves nothing?)
Hallelujah (The phase "I was drunk and it didn’t mean a thing" isn't clear: Did it not mean a think because you won't be held accountable on Judgement Day or because in the end getting drunk achieves nothing?)
Left off on 42
of http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Do homosexuals really lack any rights that hetrosexuals have?
To answer the above question let us consider seven rights and see if there are any differences between the two:
Heterosexual Homosexual
To freely practice their religion?: Yep Yes...
To freely express themselves? Yep Yes...
To assemble freely? Yep Yes
To hold to their beliefs, Yep Yes
opinions and ideas?
To vote: Yep (if the appropriate age) Yes (if the appropriate age)
To have a fair trial: Yep Yes
To marry (traditionally): Yep Yes...but...
But what?
But I can't marry who I want to!
That's true...however; neither can polygamists, people under age and people of the same family.
They may have grown up loving and wanting to marry more than one person, when they were below the proper age and in love with their own cousins. But we must realize that marriage is defined as one man and one women for a good reason. Even in classical Greece where homosexuality was widely accepted, but there is no known push to make up a new definition of marriage.
And remember: your free to have a ceremony (even in a church) and call it marriage. Your free to buy weeding rings and tell others your married.
The fact is, and I say this with no disrespect intended, that your rights aren't being violating because marriage between anyone and anyone is not, nor has it ever been a constitutional right.
I would also like to point out to you, that there is a sizable minority of homosexuals that agree with me and acknowledge that there is no real inequality.
In summery: The key issue here is not an existing inequality but if marriage should be redefined to include two consenting adults of the same gender, while at the same time excluding other people of different sexual orientations from yet another redefining of marriage because such people feel it's not fair for them.
Heterosexual Homosexual
To freely practice their religion?: Yep Yes...
To freely express themselves? Yep Yes...
To assemble freely? Yep Yes
To hold to their beliefs, Yep Yes
opinions and ideas?
To vote: Yep (if the appropriate age) Yes (if the appropriate age)
To have a fair trial: Yep Yes
To marry (traditionally): Yep Yes...but...
But what?
But I can't marry who I want to!
That's true...however; neither can polygamists, people under age and people of the same family.
They may have grown up loving and wanting to marry more than one person, when they were below the proper age and in love with their own cousins. But we must realize that marriage is defined as one man and one women for a good reason. Even in classical Greece where homosexuality was widely accepted, but there is no known push to make up a new definition of marriage.
And remember: your free to have a ceremony (even in a church) and call it marriage. Your free to buy weeding rings and tell others your married.
The fact is, and I say this with no disrespect intended, that your rights aren't being violating because marriage between anyone and anyone is not, nor has it ever been a constitutional right.
I would also like to point out to you, that there is a sizable minority of homosexuals that agree with me and acknowledge that there is no real inequality.
In summery: The key issue here is not an existing inequality but if marriage should be redefined to include two consenting adults of the same gender, while at the same time excluding other people of different sexual orientations from yet another redefining of marriage because such people feel it's not fair for them.
Monday, 30 March 2015
Six questions for those who are against Religious Freedom Laws
1.) Do you really believe that you are supporting a free country when you are forcing people to violate their religious beliefs and conscience?
2.) If you believe in tolerance, why don't you just boycott and protest the business instead of forcing your views on an independent business?
3.) If you think the business is bigoted for not supporting a gay marriage then why are you giving them money? Even if you force them to deny their conscience and religion they still hold those beliefs and you are supporting them.
4.) There are thousands of places to buy flowers and cakes, why not just go to another place and leave the business alone? That way no one has to violate their religion and you get what you want too.
5.) You probably consider yourself to be open-minded, so let me ask you: Have you really considered the other side?
I'm not saying that Indiana's new law doesn't have problems, but I am asking you to consider that other people have rights and that in a free and democratic country we must accept that people should be allowed to make judgments freely; based on their conscience and religion, and that religious individuals have a right to have jobs in the public square without having to deny their conscience and religion.
I believe that we can live in a free country; that we can have a society in which every person, religious or not can freely express and live by their religious convictions in private and public, and that the majority opinion should not force anyone out of the public square so long as they are not hurting others.
The real question here is: Do you believe in having a free society or are you willing to give up on the idea of liberty?
2.) If you believe in tolerance, why don't you just boycott and protest the business instead of forcing your views on an independent business?
3.) If you think the business is bigoted for not supporting a gay marriage then why are you giving them money? Even if you force them to deny their conscience and religion they still hold those beliefs and you are supporting them.
4.) There are thousands of places to buy flowers and cakes, why not just go to another place and leave the business alone? That way no one has to violate their religion and you get what you want too.
5.) You probably consider yourself to be open-minded, so let me ask you: Have you really considered the other side?
I'm not saying that Indiana's new law doesn't have problems, but I am asking you to consider that other people have rights and that in a free and democratic country we must accept that people should be allowed to make judgments freely; based on their conscience and religion, and that religious individuals have a right to have jobs in the public square without having to deny their conscience and religion.
I believe that we can live in a free country; that we can have a society in which every person, religious or not can freely express and live by their religious convictions in private and public, and that the majority opinion should not force anyone out of the public square so long as they are not hurting others.
The real question here is: Do you believe in having a free society or are you willing to give up on the idea of liberty?
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Ten most-centralized capitals
A central capital is an ideal one (at less of course it's in the desert or the arctic) but usually citizens prefer the capital to be close to the people not only in that they care about their citizens but also that they are reasonably visit-able. The following ten countries have the most centralized capitals:
Mexico City, Mexico. Mexico city was built in the same location as the capital of the Aztec empire; and that's for a good reason: Tenochtitlan was the best city for a center-capital.
Riyadh, Arabia. More than 80% of the Kingdom is desert which makes having a central capital difficult, and yet Riyadh is one of best positioned capitals, lying in-between the especially sacred cities of Mecca and Medina in the west and oil-wealthy cities by the Persian gulf in the east.
Jerusalem, Israel. King David choose an idle capital of the Kingdom of Israel back 3000 years ago and this day it remains a very central capital.
Madrid, Spain. Right on Spain--pretty much perfect.
Rome, Italy. The Romans choose the best place for a capital for sure. But it wasn't built in a day.
Brussels, Belgium. Dear Belgium, you may not be very popular but if nothing else at least you have a centralized capital--good for you.
Chisinau, Moldova. Your not number one, but at least your on the list.
Algiers, Algeria, In terms of being central geographically it fails but it is central in terms of where people actually live.
Abuja, Nigeria.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mexico City, Mexico. Mexico city was built in the same location as the capital of the Aztec empire; and that's for a good reason: Tenochtitlan was the best city for a center-capital.
Riyadh, Arabia. More than 80% of the Kingdom is desert which makes having a central capital difficult, and yet Riyadh is one of best positioned capitals, lying in-between the especially sacred cities of Mecca and Medina in the west and oil-wealthy cities by the Persian gulf in the east.
Jerusalem, Israel. King David choose an idle capital of the Kingdom of Israel back 3000 years ago and this day it remains a very central capital.
Madrid, Spain. Right on Spain--pretty much perfect.
Rome, Italy. The Romans choose the best place for a capital for sure. But it wasn't built in a day.
Brussels, Belgium. Dear Belgium, you may not be very popular but if nothing else at least you have a centralized capital--good for you.
Chisinau, Moldova. Your not number one, but at least your on the list.
Algiers, Algeria, In terms of being central geographically it fails but it is central in terms of where people actually live.
Abuja, Nigeria.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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