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| steel driving hammer |
Muslims more numerous than Catholics By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer
Mon Mar 31, 10:48 PM ET
VATICAN CITY - Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
"It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer," the monsignor said.
Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.
Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.
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| Condoleezza Rice |
Mr. Hammer, I would just like to point out that Catholicism is not a religion per se, but one denomination of Christianity.
Chrisians make up over 30% of the world's population, thereby making it more popular than Islam.
Some of us God even speaks to directly. We Christians, that is. God speaks to us. That's us, not the Moslems. |
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| glencar |
Chilling news. Soon, we will live by the Sharia & die by the Sharia. |
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| gimmekeef |
Cult versus Cult...We'll all be better off when we can live without these myths and bs artists |
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| mrhipfl |
could those pictures be anymore biased? Sheesh....live and let live. |
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| steel driving hammer |
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mrhipfl wrote:
could those pictures be anymore biased? Sheesh....
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| polytoxic |
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glencar wrote:
Chilling news. Soon, we will live by the Sharia & die by the Sharia.
I highly doubt that. Although we'd all be better off if people concentrated less on the exclusivity of the major religions and more on the common values of kindness, compassion and forgiveness. |
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| Condoleezza Rice |
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we'd all be better off if people concentrated less on the exclusivity of the major religions and more on the common values of kindness, compassion and forgiveness.
screw that!
steelie...why do you have bert blyleven clapping in your sig? |
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| mojoman |
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mrhipfl wrote:
could those pictures be anymore biased? Sheesh....live and let live.
live and let die? |
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| andrews27 |
They should make common cause on that boy-fucking thing. |
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| Fuck! |
blablabla who cares! religion is bigtime bullshit!!!
Fuck! |
