Reply #5: kind of misleading [View All]

[selador]

roman catholicism is not A religion.

it's a subset of a religion - specifically christianity.

so, this article seems to start from a flawed premise (that roman catholicism is a religion), that necessarily then leads to a flawed conclusion.

sure, muslims outnumber roman catholics. they don't outnumber christians.

if they are going to differentiate into roman catholics AS a religion, they might as well differentiate sunni, shiite, etc.

i realize that SOME christians (pretty extreme ones) don't consider catholics "real christians" and might consider it a different religion, etc.

but the general consensus is that catholicism, protestantism, greek orthodox, etc. are ALL christians.

mormonism would at least be a little more arguable, at least in that there is far less consensus.

not to get all semantical, but most people would say - if it's a jesus thang, it's a christian thang. that is pretty much THE deciding factor as to what is and isn't christianity. muslims say jesus was kewl, and a prophet and all that fwiw, iirc. but not the whole son of god thang