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Religion subreddits and their choice of words

Religion (or the absense of) can be an important factor in ones life and can bring like-minded people together. Let’s see what words different communities on reddit use in their posts.

About 993k randomly chosen comments to about 44k submissions from 2013-08 to 2014-07 on /r/atheism, /r/buddhism, /r/christianity, /r/hinduism, /r/islam, /r/judaism, /r/taoism and /r/zen /r/zenhabits were collected and analysed for frequency of specific words and phrases.

OK, not all of these really are religions, but for fun they are included nonetheless. ;-)

Afterlife

/r/buddhism, /r/christianity and /r/hinduism talks the most about afterlife.

afterlife

afterlife

Books

/r/christianity and /r/islam talk very much about books.

books

books

Use of profanity and words with negative connotations

/r/atheism is the community using the most curse words.

cursing

cursing

Deity

/r/christianity, /r/hinduism and /r/islam mention deities the most.

deity

deity

Happiness

The Zenhabit people lead the category of expressing happiness.

happiness

happiness

Love

/r/christianity talks the most about homosexuality, marriage and sex.

love

love

Meditation

/r/buddhism leads in mentioning meditation.

meditation

meditation

Moral

They also mention the word “ethic” much.

moral

moral

Science

Science and evidence are very present in the atheism community.

science

science

Misc

Finally some misc words without a special topic.

misc

misc

Mutual mentions

/r/atheism and /r/christianity mention each other very often, so do Buddhists and Zen. Taoism and Hinduism are mentioned very seldom overall.

mutual_mentions

(Click here for the interactive version and an explanation for this diagram type.)

That’s it. If you want to you can download the raw data all these diagrams are based on.