Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: Gurck
Wow, looks like I was wrong about them being seperate religions, good to know. Also good to know I was right about Islam having greater numbers though, thanks for the info.
Looks like you're wrong about that too.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
32% Christian
19% Muslim
Christianity almost doubles the number of Islamic followers.
That pie chart has a group labeled "Chinese Folk"
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Catholicism is considered by many as the father of all christianity
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Catholics are Christians.
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: Gurck
Wow, looks like I was wrong about them being seperate religions, good to know. Also good to know I was right about Islam having greater numbers though, thanks for the info.
Looks like you're wrong about that too.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
32% Christian
19% Muslim
Christianity almost doubles the number of Islamic followers.
Originally posted by: Riceball
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: Gurck
Wow, looks like I was wrong about them being seperate religions, good to know. Also good to know I was right about Islam having greater numbers though, thanks for the info.
Looks like you're wrong about that too.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
32% Christian
19% Muslim
Christianity almost doubles the number of Islamic followers.
The pie chart is dated by half a decade. Look below the pie and you see Islam growing while christianity declining.
Thanks for the link.Originally posted by: BigJ
Read on. Chinese Folk Religion.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Theres another one for a better explanation.
Chinese traditional religion: In older world religion books the estimates of the total number of adherents of Confucianism range up to 350 million. Other books, including older versions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, have listed Chinese religionists under "Taoism," with adherent estimates up to about 200 million. But these figures are all based on counts of the same segment of Chinese people throughout the world -- people practicing what is, sociologically, more accurately called Chinese traditional religion, and often called Chinese folk religion. The word "traditional" is preferable to "folk" because "folk" might imply only the local, tribal customs and beliefs such as ancestor worship and nature beliefs. But "Chinese traditional religion" is meant to categorize the common religion of the majority Chinese culture: a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as the traditional non-scriptural/local practices and beliefs. For most religious Chinese who do not explicitly follow a different religion such as Islam or Christianity, these different ancient Chinese philosophies and traditions form a single, seamless composite religious culture and worldview.
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Christians are those who believe in God / Jesus Christ. Catholics, Methodists, etc are all Christians....
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: Riceball
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: Gurck
Wow, looks like I was wrong about them being seperate religions, good to know. Also good to know I was right about Islam having greater numbers though, thanks for the info.
Looks like you're wrong about that too.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm
32% Christian
19% Muslim
Christianity almost doubles the number of Islamic followers.
The pie chart is dated by half a decade. Look below the pie and you see Islam growing while christianity declining.
Islam is growing, but I honestly don't think that it gained a billion followers in 5 years.
Originally posted by: Riceball
Unless you want to divide them between Sunni and Shi'ite.
Their both facets of the same religion, so I lump them together for any popularity contest.
Originally posted by: Kasper4christ
IMHO the label you give a person isn't what defines them.
being a Christian, involves beliving in Christs death and ressurection.
some people who are Catholic belive this, great. some mormons might belive this, great. most protestants belive this, great.
my .02
Originally posted by: Kasper4christ
IMHO the label you give a person isn't what defines them.
being a Christian, involves beliving in Christs death and ressurection.
some people who are Catholic belive this, great. some mormons might belive this, great. most protestants belive this, great.
my .02
I can do it from another angle. Some people believe that being Christian should mean that you do as Jesus would do. Jesus was jewish...Originally posted by: FoBoT
see? i told you somebody would explain why they think catholics aren't christians
Originally posted by: mchammer187
I would consider them christian
Catholicism is considered by many as the father of all christianity but I guess you can say that abou Judaism as well
Catholics call themselves christians
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
I would consider them christian
Catholicism is considered by many as the father of all christianity but I guess you can say that abou Judaism as well
Catholics call themselves christians
Right, and Osama BinLadin calls himself a Muslim, too. :roll:
Catholics do not follow the teachings of Christ. They are not Christians.
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Uhh, Catholics are the ORIGINAL form of Christiananity. They started the whole thing with the church headed by St. Peter. All other forms of Christianity are offshoots of Catholicism.
No. Catholicism is one of the oldest churches based off of Christianity but it was not the original. Read the book of Acts if you want to know more.
Originally posted by: Nik
Catholics do not follow the teachings of Christ. They are not Christians.
Originally posted by: Yaotl
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
I would consider them christian
Catholicism is considered by many as the father of all christianity but I guess you can say that abou Judaism as well
Catholics call themselves christians
Right, and Osama BinLadin calls himself a Muslim, too. :roll:
Catholics do not follow the teachings of Christ. They are not Christians.
...he is a Muslim.
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Yaotl
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
I would consider them christian
Catholicism is considered by many as the father of all christianity but I guess you can say that abou Judaism as well
Catholics call themselves christians
Right, and Osama BinLadin calls himself a Muslim, too. :roll:
Catholics do not follow the teachings of Christ. They are not Christians.
...he is a Muslim.
So he's a Muslim because he says he follows the Muslim faith? Because we all know he doesn't.
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
I would consider them christian
Catholicism is considered by many as the father of all christianity but I guess you can say that abou Judaism as well
Catholics call themselves christians
Right, and Osama BinLadin calls himself a Muslim, too. :roll:
Catholics do not follow the teachings of Christ. They are not Christians.