Of ten religions of the world, where does Christianity lie?
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1) Christianity 2.1 billion (Began: ca. 27 AD/CE) \nRoman Catholicism: 1.085 billion \nProtestantism: 590 million \nEastern Orthodoxy: 200 million \nAnglican: 84 million \nOriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, and other Christians: 350 million \n\nIslam 1.3 billion (Began: ca. 622 AD/CE) \nSunnism: 940 million \nShi'ism: 170 million \nSufi, Ibadiyyah, Druze and other Muslims : 80 million \nSecular/Irreligious/Agnostic/Atheist 1.1 billion \nCategory includes a wide range of beliefs, without specifically adhering to a religion. The category also includes humanism, deism, pantheism, and freethought. For more information, see the Adherents.com discussion of this category. \n\nHinduism 900 million (Began: 15th century BC/BCE) \nVaishnavism: 580 million \nShaivism: 220 million \nShaktism/Smartism/Arya Samaj/Other sects: 150 million \n\nBuddhism 708 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE) \nMahayana: 185 million \nTheravada: 124 million \nChinese/Japanese Buddhism: 394 million \nPrimal indigenous 300 million \nNot a single organized religion, includes a wide range of primarily Asian traditional or tribal religions, including Shamanism and Paganism. \n\nAfrican traditional and diasporic 100 million \nNot a single organized religion, this includes traditional African beliefs such as Yoruba as well as diasporic beliefs such as Santeria (which itself draws from Catholicism) and Vodoun. \n\nShintoism 69 million (Began: 300 BC/BCE) \nThis number states the number of practicing followers of Shintoism; for if partial or ethnic followers of Shintoism were included, the number would fall around 100–115 million. \n\nSikhism 23 million (Began: 1500s) \nJuche 19 million \nNot considered a religion by adherents, who view it as secular and anti-revisionist. Juche is the political ideology of the Workers Party of Korea, the ruling party of the DPRK; some have argued it constitutes a religion due to its Great Leader Worship characteristics. The number is approximately the entire population of the country. \nSpiritism 15 million (Began: mid-19th century) \nNot a single organized religion, includes a variety of beliefs including some forms of Umbanda. \n\nJudaism 15 million (Began: 13th century BC/BCE) \n\nFalun Gong 10-100 million* (Began: 1992) \nNot necessarily considered a religion by adherents or outside observers. No membership or rosters, thus the actual figure of practitioners is impossible to confirm. \nBahá'í Faith 7 million (Began: 19th century) \n\nJainism 4.2 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE)
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christianity is not the oldest religion.\n\nit has been suggested that the wiccan religion is the oldest, and in truth, christian religion has borrowed alot from it. some people also claim that hinduism is the oldest religion because it has the earliest recorded roots which lie in dravidianism. \n\nto answer the first part of your question, people will hold on to what ever belief system that they understand best. not all countries and cultures have been introduced to christianity, so they have developed their own belief system that does not revolve around jesus christ, or christian rituals.\n_____________________\nmainworry, what precise evidence do you have to suggest that christianity is not a religion?
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Not in particular Order: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. \n\nSome minor religions( in terms of followers) would be : Jainism, Sikhism (2 offshoots of Hinduism along with Buddhism), Shintoism.\n\nMy knowledge here isn't vast, so if somebody has more ideas, do add them!
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Christianity is a polytheistic religion that blasphemes against the true living God. It is a religion that pulls the ploy of taking the focus off the Father of creation and placing it on a prophet (who himself practiced true monotheism). Christians try to trick the world by simply saying it is three in one. So can't the Hindus say it is a million in one?
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You are absolutely correct! AMEN to that! Christianity is being told all over the world. In fact many from other religions are turning to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India.....lots more.\n\nHere's a list of Religions by countries. It's not 100% accurate but it gives a good idea of the makeup of faiths:\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_coun.htm
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There are approximately 2.1 billion Christians in the world.
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Christianity (2.1 Billion)
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# Christianity: 2.1 billion\n# Islam: 1.3 billion\n# Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n# Hinduism: 900 million\n# Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n# Buddhism: 376 million\n# primal-indigenous: 300 million\n# African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n# Sikhism: 23 million\n# Juche: 19 million\n# Spiritism: 15 million\n# Judaism: 14 million\n# Baha'i: 7 million\n# Jainism: 4.2 million\n# Shinto: 4 million\n# Cao Dai: 4 million\n# Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n# Tenrikyo: 2 million\n# Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n# Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n# Rastafarianism: 600 thousand\n# Scientology: 500 thousand
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Christianity, if you count both protestantism and catholicism is the largest at 2.1 billion.\n# Christianity: 2.1 billion\n# Islam: 1.3 billion\n# Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n# Hinduism: 900 million\n# Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n# Buddhism: 376 million\n# primal-indigenous: 300 million\n# African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n# Sikhism: 23 million\n# Juche: 19 million\n# Spiritism: 15 million\n# Judaism: 14 million\n# Baha'i: 7 million\n# Jainism: 4.2 million\n# Shinto: 4 million\n# Cao Dai: 4 million\n# Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n# Tenrikyo: 2 million\n# Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n# Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n# Rastafarianism: 600 thousand\n# Scientology: 500 thousand
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Yes, Christianity is the largest community of faith. There are more nations that claim Christianity as their faith than any others.
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At the bottom of this page there are some Interesting Facts based on this list. \n\nMany of the figures here are estimates. Different methods have been used to collect these figures. Where possible, the figures shown here are for adherents, a larger and more inclusive figure than members. Details may be found in the detailed source notes for each group found in the main Adherents.com listing, although currently a few of the religious bodies on this list are not yet incorporated into the main, online Adherents.com database. (At the end of this document is a list of the world's largest international religious bodies, shown in bold in the main list.) \n\nReligious Body Number of Adherents \nCatholic Church** 1,100,000,000 \nSunni Islam* 1,000,000,000 \n\n\nIn terms of practicing adherents, there are more Sunni Muslims than there are Catholics
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christianity as a whole(all sects/subsects)  has the maximum number of believers , followed by islam. but you will be suprised to know that the bahai faith although with few followers as compared to christianity and islam, is the most wide spread (geographically) religion in the world
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I haven't been able to find a website with that name, but here is a list of the world religions...
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I agree. God is one Krishna Allah Jehovah, etc.  One God many religions.  Krishna Says in the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) " Whenever their is a decline in religious principals and the truth appears to be lost, I appear again and again or send my representative to reestablish the Truth."  So now we can see why their are so many religions with so many misunderstandings.  Go to http://www.stephen-knapp.com for universal truths
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Christianity is like Judaism plus some extras.  Plus, Christians believe that after Christ came, the traditional Jewish law of sacrifices and certain other laws were no longer needed; they served a purpose, but Christ fulfilled that purpose once and for all (to atone for sins).  So there are parts of it that Christians also accept and believe, like the 10 commandments and the one God, but they also believe in the divinity of Jesus and his death and resurrection as the ultimate sacrifice.
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Depends on which religion you are talking about, my dear. There are only some 20 or 30 different religious practices in the world, with over 1,000 sects. You'll have to be more specific.\n\nHowever, the basic goal of almost every religion is an effort to become closer to the divine.