Muslim is separated into Sects. So is Christianity. If Muslim just passed only one Sect of Christianity, it still has some ways to go.
Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:29pm BST
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNew...68682420080330
Muslim is separated into Sects. So is Christianity. If Muslim just passed only one Sect of Christianity, it still has some ways to go.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
LOL, Wally World has sort of become a religion hasn't it ?
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
hmm another interesting fact:
13-14M jews worldwide
5-6M in both Israel and US.. rest spread between other areas.
Q: Senator Obama, would you take the same pledge? No tax increases on people under $250,000?
OBAMA: I not only have pledged not to raise their taxes, I've been the first candidate in this race to specifically say I would cut their taxes.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
No, I believe there are only a billion or so Muslims worldwide, while there are there are a billion or so Catholics alone. Although about half of all Christians are Catholic, Christians still outnumber Muslims considerably, and Catholicism would still be the largest denomination. Catholicism might be considered a separate religion than Christianity, though. If that is the case, Christianity has been the third largest religion for some time, with Islam as the second largest, and Catholicism the first.
"Our life is a false nature – 'tis not in
The harmony of things, – this hard decree,
This uneradicable taint of sin,
This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree,
Whose root is earth, whose leaves and branches be
The skies which rain their plagues on men like dew –
Disease, death, bondage – all the woes we see –
And worse, the woes we see not – which throb thought
The immedicable soul, with heart-aches ever new"
The Vatican is reporting that Islam has overtaken Catholism. I guess they want us all to be afraid?
They are about half. 17% of the world is Catholic, 33% consider themselves Christian.
Another oddity, Mormons are not included in that number either. When you get to counting all of the religions based on worship of a first century "Jewish Zombie" you are getting into serious numbers.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Moremoans are not included neither a Moonies. Pretty much cluts grown large.
But then all religions started as cults.
and the real clincher. Muslims and Christians and Jews all worship the god of Abraham.
so they are all just sects too ?
a really great website, http://www.religioustolerance.org/relcomp.htm
still lists Islam as the #2 religion in the world. http://www.religioustolerance.org/islam.htm
Muslims are better at sex than Catholics.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Personal experience?
Bookmarks