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    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

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    Muslim is separated into Sects. So is Christianity. If Muslim just passed only one Sect of Christianity, it still has some ways to go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by uscitizen View Post
    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

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    LOL, Wally World has sort of become a religion hasn't it ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Should I be afraid that the islamofascist hordes are going to invade america, and turn our Walmarts into Mosques?
    Yes. Because then we'd all have to shop at that French Target...
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    hmm another interesting fact:
    13-14M jews worldwide
    5-6M in both Israel and US.. rest spread between other areas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Muslim is separated into Sects. So is Christianity. If Muslim just passed only one Sect of Christianity, it still has some ways to go.
    Damo, Catholics are a very large super-majority of Christian world wide. But Christianity has always been the largest religion. But just b/c Catholoscism is fading, doesn't mean Christianity's growth is slowing down. Radical evangelicals more than make upthe losses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by uscitizen View Post
    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
    Islam isn't a single religious denomination. There are sunni, shi'a, and several others. Maybe the link meant that Sunni's have overtaken catholics?
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    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.
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    The Vatican is reporting that Islam has overtaken Catholism. I guess they want us all to be afraid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    Damo, Catholics are a very large super-majority of Christian world wide. But Christianity has always been the largest religion. But just b/c Catholoscism is fading, doesn't mean Christianity's growth is slowing down. Radical evangelicals more than make upthe losses.
    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.
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    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 ?

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    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

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    Muslims are better at sex than Catholics.
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    Personal experience?

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