I’ve heard it said before that Christianity is a white man’s religion. But of course, anybody with a brain or access to the internet can quickly find out that statement is dumb and laughable. What’s actually closer to the truth is that atheism or agnosticism is a white man’s religion.

Most Christians in the world today are not white. This is because of Christianity’s growth in areas like sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and parts of Asia. If we just look at the U.S, the fact of the matter is that white people make up a greater share of the non-religious than of Christians. The latest data suggests that as many as 80% of agnostics in the U.S are white. Around 60% of Christians in the U.S are white.

Of course, there are plenty of non-white agnostics too. There might be over 1 billion of them in China. But this seems like a different sort of thing to me because their government is actively suppressing religion. Atheism has been the official state ideology since 1949.

Let’s not forget, from the very beginning Christianity has been about going to “all nations.” (Matthew 28:19) What do you think? Is Christianity–a religion that was started by Jews, which began around the Mediterranean and Northern Africa and which today has more non-white adherents than white adherents–is it a white man’s religion?