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Re:It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It by 082349872349872 on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:04PM (#39983645)
After a little cursory research (corrections welcome)

    100 000 protestants believing in double predestination
  1 700 000 sunni muslims
Confucians are far more concerned with behaving properly in this life than in wondering what may happen after; Taoists nominally believe in the possibility of immortality, but again brought about by human agency.

So ~1/5 of the world believes "you don't make your own heaven and hell", and the remaining ~4/5 believes in agency, whether connected to an afterlife or not.

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Re:It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It by 082349872349872 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:02AM (#39987420)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_in_Islam even that overstates matters; sunni muslims are apparently like christian protestants in that only the most extreme deny human agency.

(as far as the conflict between omniscience and free will goes, that page says that the prophet [pbuh] counselled: don't delve too greedily and too deep)

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