"A PUSH for Australians to mark 'no religion' in the 2016 Census could see Christianity overtaken as the most popular 'religion' and change the way government policy is made and projects funded in Australia.

It’s a subtle change, but overseas experience is that moving the 'no religion' option to the top of the list of responses on the question of religion saw a dramatic rise in the number of people identifying with a particular faith.
This year’s Census has done that, with the option moved to the top of the list of possible responses to the “What is the person’s religion?” question for the first time since the “no religion” option was introduced in 1991. The “Catholic” option moves to second on the list.

Among those advocating the “mark no religion” initiative is the Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA), which says the results could have huge impacts on the way governments spend money on welfare and education.

“Census data is used by governments to make important funding decisions like assigning chaplains to hospitals, schools, prisons and armed services, for planning educational facilities, for aged care and other social services,” AFA president Kylie Sturgess said.
“Many of those services are run by religious-based organisations. Since the government relies on Census data to decide on funding and policy for these things, it’s important the Census data is correct. Accurate Census data matters.

“We are a secular country, and we would like to see whether or not people are actually reflecting upon what we think is a secular country and saying yes, it truly is, and demonstrating it in Census data.”"

If 2 billion people following a religion makes you want to follow it then why doesn't more and more people walking away from it NOT make you want to walk away? Because you 'decide' what you want to believe. None of us can do that here.

I'm repeating and improving my previous post, since it may have been drowned out in the noise. ( http://www.atheistrepublic.com/comment/42857 )

@ skeptical christian

While you answered my question, "yes this i whole heart believe", you kind of didn't answer at the same time by asking: "..why limit god?"
I don't understand what you mean by posing that question to me: why limit god?

I'll rephrase my question:
How confident are you in your beliefs in Jesus, like for example that he walked on water and healed the sick, from 0% to 100% confidence?

In your reply to me here: http://www.atheistrepublic.com/comment/42845
You said that you became interested in religion at 26 years old.

You say you became interested at that point, but does that mean that this was when you became convinced or was that at some point later in your life?