nbcrusader said:
As sin, or as a worse sin than others?
Probably a little of both.
nbcrusader said:
As sin, or as a worse sin than others?
LivLuvAndBootlegMusic said:
Me too. As a Christian, sometimes I'm embarassed by how many denominations and sects we have, like the only thing we can ever agree on is the existence of a god.
anitram said:IIRC, according to the UN, there is one Roman Catholic Church (maybe with a billion people following each their own way, lol) composed of slightly more than 1 billion followers, a handful of Orthodox and Eastern Rite Christian Churches numbering about 300 million, and over 27,000 (!!) Protestant denominations worldwide numbering somewhere between 400-500 million. The numbers are likely outdated by now, though.
FizzingWhizzbees said:
So the Catholic church has almost twice as many followers as the various Protestant denominations? I'm not sure why (perhaps because Protestantism is more common than Catholicism in the UK so I subconsciously assumed it's the same worldwide. ) but that really suprises me. It also makes me realise how ridiculous it is when representatives of conservative Protestant denominations try to present their views as representative of Christianity as a whole.
FizzingWhizzbees said:
So the Catholic church has almost twice as many followers as the various Protestant denominations? I'm not sure why (perhaps because Protestantism is more common than Catholicism in the UK so I subconsciously assumed it's the same worldwide. ) but that really suprises me. It also makes me realise how ridiculous it is when representatives of conservative Protestant denominations try to present their views as representative of Christianity as a whole.
FizzingWhizzbees said:
So the Catholic church has almost twice as many followers as the various Protestant denominations? I'm not sure why (perhaps because Protestantism is more common than Catholicism in the UK so I subconsciously assumed it's the same worldwide. ) but that really suprises me. It also makes me realise how ridiculous it is when representatives of conservative Protestant denominations try to present their views as representative of Christianity as a whole.
nbcrusader said:It would be hard to say that the Catholic Church represents so many people's beliefs when so many Catholics distance themselves from the teachings of the Catholic Church.
FizzingWhizzbees said:
So the Catholic church has almost twice as many followers as the various Protestant denominations?
nbcrusader said:
And this touches on the whole point of the reformation.
It would be hard to say that the Catholic Church represents so many people's beliefs when so many Catholics distance themselves from the teachings of the Catholic Church.
anitram said:But you also have to understand that Catholicism, possibly more than any other Christian denomination or sect is a cultural phenomenon. There are countries which have major holidays built around the feast days of saints and so on, so that hundreds of years of culture have been impregnated with Catholicism and both the religion and the Church in those countries play slightly different roles than other churches may.