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- FilmDoctor, on 03/31/2008, -16/+116This story is stupid! Islam is not a dfenomination. The Muslims are actually divided into three major denominations -- Sunni, Sufi and Shi'ite. None of them are as big as the Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity, which as a whole is still about twice as big as Islam.
- BottledSunshine, on 03/31/2008, -8/+72Actually Islam in not a single religious denomination, it is made up of many different sects, Sunni and Shia being the two largest. Just as Catholicism is one of the many sects of Christianity. I would be curious to see comparisons broken down by sects of each religion and combined totals.
- keltin, on 03/31/2008, -45/+98We allow mosques into Western countries as part of our culture of fairness. The Muslim counties confiscate bibles, harass and kill missionaries and refuse to allow Christian churches to open, without draconian regulations that prevent a church from...well, being a church.
- Aeuta, on 03/31/2008, -13/+50I shall remind you that Christianity did some of those things to establish its current role...
It is not "fair" or anything but that is how this whole mess works... - s810, on 03/31/2008, -9/+41Why does the west always ignore Buddhism? Not that being "the #1 religion" really matters, but it is entirely probable that Buddhism is the actual top religion worldwide, as there are no adequate statistics to cover them. THe Chinese Government estimates the number of buddhists in China alone at 600 million which is 200+million more than these studies seem to be accounting for.
there is a sample of the debate here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Worldwide_perce ... - obliviousfool, on 03/31/2008, -4/+35I wonder how the atheists are doing number-wise.
- Azerael, on 03/31/2008, -15/+43Perhaps it's a good time to give up religion.
- freddiep, on 03/31/2008, -49/+76we would send more missionaries over there... except then, those *peace-loving* muslims seem to always end up killing them... (like they just killed the bishop in iraq)
- JeffreyLloyd, on 03/31/2008, -14/+39Is this really news?
- ChristophyBrown, on 03/31/2008, -13/+38Being Muslim doesn't mean you want to kill all Jews and Americans, damnit. How about we choose the option "Continue with your life."
- Mattyandco, on 03/31/2008, -10/+32"The Muslim counties confiscate bibles, harass and kill missionaries and refuse to allow Christian churches to open."?
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/32CC5571-64 ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7297808.stm - kinseyincanada, on 03/31/2008, -9/+26some people need to realize that not ever single Muslim is some crazed lunatic who wants to kill everyone who doesn't believe in the same god as them, one of the greatest Americans Muhammad Ali is a Muslim.
- Aitese, on 03/31/2008, -5/+22Hmm...I love that word, "they"...as if the whole country has a phone vote on TV and decide overwhelmingly to murder. Not possible that a small minority of extremist lunatics are carrying out the atrocities. It's funny that when a black person uses "they" against the white people of America this subtle point is always driven home with force. It's almost as if a few rednecks in a truck pulling a brother to his death along a road isn't the fault of a whole race of people...interesting.
- iamondigghaha, on 03/31/2008, -3/+19Uh, you're still missing the point. The math is wrong.
- egoherodotus, on 03/31/2008, -5/+21stop trolling. no intelligent human being believes such simplicity. there are so many other factors involved and your post is specious at best.
- StaticThunder, on 03/31/2008, -2/+17We've got most of Europe and the U.S. where people just say they are Christian but don't act like it.
- ccourt23, on 03/31/2008, -4/+19not a fair comparison.
either christian to muslin
or Catholic to sunni etc. - sule, on 03/31/2008, -4/+19Dear Atheist,
Your belief that others should think like you is part of the problem, not solution
Sincerely,
Human Being - CanTheSpam, on 03/31/2008, -5/+18"Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday."
I think it's news that the Vatican thinks that Muslims are all the same denomination. The explosions in Iraq disagree.
This isn't the first time that I've disagreed with the Church. - sule, on 03/31/2008, -2/+15well, to add to your post, i can name a bunch of Muslims that Americans enjoy, but either don't know, don't realize, or don't care to associate with Eastern Islam:
Dave Chappelle
Rick James
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hakeem Olajuwan
John Coltrane
Lupe Fiasco
Mos Def
Jermaine Jackson
Ahmed Zewail - inactive, on 03/31/2008, -1/+13"Islam" has denominations too. This is propaganda. It's like saying "There are more Christians than Shi'ites!" on Al-Jazeera.
- totleguy, on 03/31/2008, -1/+13And I was always told that Buddhism isn't exactly a religion, but that it's more a way of life. *shrug*
- rz8472, on 03/31/2008, -1/+13It depends on the country. Turkey and Indonesia are by law secular societies and do not have an official religion... there shouldn't be any problem there. Presumably the UAE is also fairly progressive on these matters. On the other side of the fence are ofc Saudi Arabia, Iran, and probably a few other countries... which now includes Iraq since sectarian violence is now everywhere.
Saddam may have been a bastard, but at least he held the country together and protected the 1 million Christians living inside Iraq. Even the Iraqi PM (Tariq Aziz) is Christian. - tamuengineer, on 03/31/2008, -0/+12"[residents] are prohibited by law from converting to another faith "
So they are allowing them to be built, you just cant join. - TheGuruStud, on 03/31/2008, -4/+16and it doesn't even do that...
it can keep them clinically insane, though - Kabloink, on 03/31/2008, -2/+13How Christian of you.
- inactive, on 03/31/2008, -6/+16So a lie is okay if it keeps people happy?
- WoollyMittens, on 03/31/2008, -0/+10The same goes for christians.
- MaxPayne3476, on 03/31/2008, -9/+19You're also retarded. Don't take President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's words as the consensus of their nation. The fact is that he is not the Supreme Leader. It's as if saying that the general consensus agrees with George Bush. No.
- inactive, on 03/31/2008, -12/+22Great, I hope Catholics don't start blowing up our buildings.
- inactive, on 03/31/2008, -14/+23you are a conspiracy theorist like Bush.
- leexy, on 03/31/2008, -3/+12This is mostly the case in Saudi Arabia and other Wahabi states. All of which, I should add, are best buddies with the US which sells them weapons and sends them all sorts of goodies financed by the taxpayer. And what does the White House do? Fsck over the secular Arab states where Christians, Jews and Muslims cohabit, while actively enforcing the rule of the tyrants in the states where sharia law is practiced.
And yes, I'm a Muslim, and a pissed off one at that! - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -5/+14We? So I take it you are a member of the Catholic church?
Such an arrogant stance. "They're not part of my religion, so lets send some people down their to fix that!" That goes for everyone. - sule, on 03/31/2008, -6/+15the fact that you even use the word jihad as some sort of all-encompassing concept, shows that you likely don't know anymore about it than what has been fed to you through your boob-tube
- OUChevelleSS, on 03/31/2008, -1/+10How so? There are roughly 1.8 billion Muslims and 2.1 billion Christians. I think Christians are still the largest group.
- Rickler, on 03/31/2008, -5/+14Because his comment doesn't say mosques in western countries are a problem. Why are people digging this idiot who cannot read?
- Gizza, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9Funny thing about that really is that Christians, Jews and Muslims actually all believe in the same God. They just fight about how to believe in him.
- StaticThunder, on 03/31/2008, -3/+12How do you know he's a Christian.
Oh... nevermind. - danconia, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9I think the point is that it doesn't matter whether they're "companions", "virgins", or just about anything because either way they still won't be there. Arguing semantics over something non-existent is a waste of time
- dreamstretch, on 03/31/2008, -1/+10That was the Byzantine Empire. The Holy Roman Empire was several hundred years later in central Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire - inactive, on 03/31/2008, -9/+18I did. Years ago. So did anyone that wanted control of their lives.
- StarlessKnight, on 03/31/2008, -0/+8There are just three kinds of Central and Southern Americans: Mexican, Cuban, and more Mexican. When we say Mexican, we don't really care if they're Mexican, Honduran, Brazilian, etc. etc. they all look the same. Kind of like those Asians. Japanese, Chinese, Korean what? Asian, damn it! All of 'em. Don't forget "Mexicans" are growing faster than the Caucasian American population!
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but isn't Catholicism, itself, more or less just Catholicism? Islam, meanwhile, is akin to the umbrella term "Christianity" which Catholicism is merely a part. Therefore, comparing the growth of the umbrella term to that of a part skews the results; comparing the largest, pronounced denomination of Islam to that of the largest, pronounced denomination of Christianity would seem to be a better choice. I believe that is BottledSunshine's point.
FTA: "He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people. [...] It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion [19.2 percent of the world's population]." - TheGreat1, on 03/31/2008, -2/+10Ok, so the issue here is that people are comparing religion with violence and giving examples of Iraq like its in their back yard. With no educational institutions, no jobs, no law and order and no monthly stable income, how to expect anyone to remain sane. If you have your facts straight, in Iraq its the militias who are fighting among each other to control the biggest portion of the land. Now how could you say that its Islam which is teaching them to do that. No religion preaches violence in any way, its the ignorance of people who interpret it in a very wrong way. I'm a Muslim and my roots are form Pakistan and before you burn me for that I just like to go on record and say that I consider my self to be a proud American and I will not allow anyone to question my solidarity. To all Christian friends on digg, I assure you that all the churches in Karachi are free to do what ever they want. They are respected by the Muslim community and they run quite a few of the most respected educational institutions. Stop watching fox news and start getting your facts together.
The point im trying to make here is that you have to provide people with jobs, have to give them an infrastructure to depend upon so they could have a stable income coming in. If you take basic necessities away form any nation, things are bound to get ugly. Imagine no law and order in this very country of ours, what do you think would happen.
I hope i have not offended anyone here. If i have, reply back and i will make things more clear. - braeden0613, on 03/31/2008, -1/+9ite
- AbdullahAbuDawu, on 09/12/2008, -0/+8He was talking about the 'big 3' monotheistic religions. The Abrahamic religions if you will.
- inactive, on 03/31/2008, -0/+8I think the IRA already disarmed.
- jmpeagle, on 03/31/2008, -4/+12sufism is not a "sect"...they are just the more mystical branch of Islam and can come from either Sunni Islam or Shia Islam. It's like saying conservative christian...it could apply to a member of almost any of the christian denomination
- sule, on 03/31/2008, -1/+9what bothers me is people who think every Muslim has to apologize for their religion and justify that they aren't a terrorist before even commenting...
here's an idea....go read and understand how the world works and not think that you need to have every Muslim's views clairifed to you before you can brand them in your mind as "maybe not a terrorist" instead of "must be a terrorist"
for wanting Muslims to constantly clarify their positions means you are the ignorant one unwilling to think on a global level, not the Muslim you are interacting with. - qwertydvorak, on 03/31/2008, -6/+13that was the past. kind of reinforcing the idea that muslims are stuck in the stone age.
- inactive, on 03/31/2008, -2/+9Nice try bible troll, but buddhism simply isn't a religion. It's a way of life, a theology of living. People pick and choose what "gods" they want to follow based on their attitudes. Two of my good friends are Thai buddhists; one won't eat pork because the god he follows says it's bad for you. The other one does and follows a different god.
I would call you out further but Christians are nothing if not ignorant of other gigantic religions and belief systems. Latest guess has Buddhism pegged at about 1,465,987,215 people. How many Christians are there again? -
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