Originally posted by NemeBro
Christianity is the world's biggest religion, though.
Most places you'll have people who have been shuffled into the church registry at birth, but who do not believe in god or practice any kind of christian belief.
That's why Christianity still has over 2 bill members, but can probably only sport a couple of hunderd mill who actually go to church.
Originally posted by krisblaze
No doubt, but he'd be very surprised in how many christians there really are in Europe.Most places you'll have people who have been shuffled into the church registry at birth, but who do not believe in god or practice any kind of christian belief.
Most places? You probably mean those with high living standards which is far from a given in Europe.
Since I'm from France I totally get what you mean though.
Originally posted by krisblaze
That's why Christianity still has over 2 bill members, but can probably only sport a couple of hunderd mill who actually go to church.
Arguably the biggest numbers for Christianity are in African/Asian/Latin American countries which are more populated and I'd argue, are more devout in general.
If you ignore half-assed believers Islam also takes a huge hit.
Originally posted by Bentley
Most places? You probably mean those with high living standards which is far from a given in Europe.
Originally posted by Bentley
Arguably the biggest numbers for Christianity are in African/Asian/Latin American countries which are more populated and I'd argue, are more devout in general.
Originally posted by Bentley
If you ignore half-assed believers Islam also takes a huge hit.
In Britain for example you've got 3-4 as many muslims going to the mosque as you've got christians going to church.
The thing is that people don't go out of their way to sign out of church registry, even if they don't believe in god, don't go to church, etc.
This is why you'll see inflated membership numbers contrasted with actual practice.
Originally posted by krisblaze
Granted, but shit-europe is pretty small population-wise.
True. Poland is populated for European standards and its more religiously active than say, England.
Originally posted by krisblaze
Possibly, but culturally Islam is on its way up,In Britain for example you've got 3-4 as many muslims going to the mosque as you've got christians going to church.
The thing is that people don't go out of their way to sign out of church registry, even if they don't believe in god, don't go to church, etc.
This is why you'll see inflated membership numbers contrasted with actual practice.
Yes there is that. Islam is probably less practiced in places where it has been historically based in the past, just like christianity (in very broad terms).
Yup, which is why I find it strange when people in the west take pride in the numbers.
Between the cultural death of, and relocalization of Christianity, there surely cant be much to boast about.
Hence why I invited Star to go and see the world. Surely a racist such as he must be shocked to see that the future of christianity lies in our coloured brethren (e) 🙂
Originally posted by Bentley
I agree americans don't matter 😖hifty: 131
....and yet you foreigners keep coming into threads that are obviously on American subjects and continue to show your ignorance of anything American as if any of your two-cent opinion's matter one bit to us. If "Americans don't matter"then quit showing your stupidity and posting in threads pertaining to Americans. Seriously, do you think Americans give a shit about you Europeans? Are you all so goddamn ignorant to think that any of you "matter" to us or anybody else in the entire world? Get the phuck over yourselves. You're not all that. If it wasn't for the internet or world news channels we would go on with our daily lives as if you didn't even exist. We don't matter to you now. But when you need our help and come crying to us as usual we sure do don't we, hypocrite?
I think we got off track of the topic.
To directly comment on it, I find Obama's speech patterns to be irritating. He stumbles and fumbles through what he's trying to say. And he speaks far to slowly at times while he's trying to form his thoughts. He spends too much time trying to lawyer his words that he ends up just coming off as forked-tongued lawyer who can't speak very well.
And I see no need to bring up Bush. That's just partisan shit slinging because people who like Obama (or at democrats) want to detract from the thread topic. Who cares? Pretty much no one liked Bush on this site except for the obvious ones whose opinions most of us don't really care about, anyway. 😐
Originally posted by Q99
Yes, by a sizable margin of about 600 million over Islam (2.2 bil and 1.6 bil).And of course, Islam is noticeably not-very-popular in the US, downright tiny in fact. America is 73% Christian (and Christians, I will note, are tremendously over represented in Government even so. You occasionally see people say that the government is anti-Christian, but it's basically presenting a fantasy narrative so they can feel persecuted. It's hard to get elected even if one is openly agnostic, let alone having a non-Christian/Jewish religion), 0.8% Muslim.
The whole 'secret muslim' thing is a joke, you can pretty much tell who doesn't care about little things like 'facts' by who preaches it and accepts it as real.
You're wasting your time with him. He's not the type that will care about a well-thought-out, fact based reply to an incorrectly held idea or belief.
Originally posted by dadudemon
You're wasting your time with him. He's not the type that will care about a well-thought-out, fact based reply to an incorrectly held idea or belief.
The comment about Islam being the worlds biggest religion was a joke. It's widely believed by most, even some Christians that Islam is the worlds biggest religion. I don't know why though.
Originally posted by Star428Star, if you have him on ignore then there's no reason to go off with a bash-filled rant. Please don't do it again.
LOL. Oh, Kris Blaze is a phucking idiot. I don't bother to read his trolling posts anymore but unfortunately when someone else quotes him I sometimes forget to skip over it. Idiot doesn't know anything about me because if he did he'd know that I've travelled to many places throughout the world while I was in the Navy. If he thinks it's not the biggest religion in the world then perhaps he's the one that needs to get off his sorry Norwegian ass and travel.
Originally posted by Badabing
Star, if you have him on ignore then there's no reason to go off with a bash-filled rant. Please don't do it again.
Ok, Bada. But, as I said, someone else quoted him. That's only reason I saw it. Usuallly, I remember to just skip over it when I see that someone else has quoted him but I had just woke up when I saw it and forgot.