File talk:Religious syms.svg

Why are they in this order? Bsrboy 18:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC) the gay bo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.43.66.6 (talk) 07:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * how were they even chosen ;) I think they should be ordered left-to-right top-to-bottom by number of believers world wide. --Frantik (talk) 00:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I wonder the order too.--hnnvansier (talk) 05:51, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * But this would make it too abvious that Judaism would be right down the list...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.82.37.41 (talk) 07:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

- The Islam symbol is the arabic Allah text, it isn't moon and star, that's the Pakistan flag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.96.67.83 (talk) 19:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Where is the sign of the Flying Spagetti Monster (FSM) ?? Lex Scotland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.69.199 (talk) 01:18, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I originated this image, which was then converted into a png and then an svg by others. So I guess I should answer these questions. My original statement on this can be found at the bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Religious_pluralism/Archive_2#What_do_these_symbols_mean.3F

The order that they are in was chosen totally for aesthetic reasons. Also, the image was based on a previous image which represented a couple of minorities and neglected some major religions. Most especially, Jainism and Shintoism were NOT originally present. I confess that the choice of a Shinto symbol was rather arbitrary, but no-one seems to have complained... :D (Oops OR) Regarding a symbol for Islam, I used what was originally there. I have to say that for many people, the moon and star is instantly recognisable as a symbol of Islam, even if it is not. But I get the point. Lex - the choice of symbols was based upon the idea that it seemed to make sense to use the top nine organized religions found on World religion - namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Bahá'í, Jainism, Shinto. Notable absences would be those excluded by the 'organized religion' requirement - Chinese traditional, Primal Indigenous, African traditional, and Secular/Atheists. (20040302 (talk) 12:47, 12 February 2010 (UTC))