Sorry 99 schools then. Edit- On Wikipedia at least.
Cite, please?
Count.
How in the hell did you get only 56 denominations of Christianity from my link?
The question is one that would be nearly impossible to answer without a very narrow set of criteria. For example take Lutheranism. Do you count them once as a subset of Christianity, or are you counting every denomination on this list? If you count them all then there’s more types of Lutherans than major schools in Hinduism. But a non-Lutheran would be able to attend any of those denominations without noticing any difference between services. Even a devout member of one denomination would have little trouble attending any of those services, finding only minor differences between the new church and their own.
Compare that to a Hindu tradition like Smarta. It’s entirely possible to have two orthodox practitioners, acknowledged both by outsiders and each other to be faithful members of that type of Hinduism, who don’t even share a common deity. Are they still counted as one group?
I counted the number of denomination on the"List of Denominations" page.
There are 97 different Baptist sects alone-it looks like you are using a broad definition of “denomination” for your cite and an extremely narrow definition for my cite.
This is the kind of thing I’m talking about Czarcasm. Blunt declarations of fact without evidence fall apart without any agreed upon definitions of the question. A proper study would at least have internally consistent meaning. You’re just stating opinion and getting called on it
Totally. Why wouldn’t I? It’s more than you were willing to do with prodding.
And I’ve shown at least superficial evidence for my position.
Why wouldn’t you use two different standards?
Because it wouldn’t be the Christian thing to do?
Just because I’m a minister doesn’t mean I’m Christian.
Superficial evidence for what? Without defined terms none of what you say has any meaning.
It does, but it’s not the usual name as it is in English. Spanish for example has references to the Catholic Church being cristiana, romana y apostólica (Christian, Roman and Apostolic), but it’s rarely used by Catholics, and when we use it it’s more commonly to refer to individual believers than to the Church itself; in theory at least the Roman bit in Spanish refers to the rite, which is not followed by every member of the RCC, rather than to its current see - and even if you take it as referring to the see, the RCC was the same Church during the periods in which its see was in Avignon or in dispute; that “Roman” bit is quite irrelevant compared with the “Catholic” part.
Normally in Spanish or Catalan I’d speak about la iglesia católica or l’esglesia católica, respectively, no need to tack any additional adjectives. But when I run into some proselitist asking “are you a Christian?”, my response is likely to be “yep! Christian, Catholic, Roman and Apostolic!” - pisses them off no end.
Then substitute “intellectually honest” for “Christian”.
If you count the sects on my cite the same way you counted them on yours, what numbers do you come up with?
First, they’re both you’re cites, remember? Second, you’re ignoring the point smiling bandit, Oldeb and I are making in an attempt to “win”. If you really want to prove it you can count it yourself. I only counted in the first place to annoy you because you’re refusal to understand the conversation annoyed me (hence the double standard, if I was being serious I wouldn’t have done that). The point isn’t who has the most listing on Wikipedia. If someone else want’s to point me toward a real source on comparative factionalism between religions I’d be interested. Czarcasm, I’m done with this. If you want to declare “victory” go ahead. Knowledge is not a contest. Have fun missing the point.
Czarcasm and Reverend Meade, take this hijack (of an already silly thread) somewhere else.
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♫ Take one down and pass it aro-- wait are we doing this, or what?
No.
Oh. Okay.