Religions of the World

fada
fada Posts: 1,032
edited October 2006 in A Moving Train
I know what most are but I want to question what are the main religion of these countries.
Germany
Canada
Hungary
France
Netherlands
Norway
Thialand
Vietnam
Australia
New Zealand
United States of AMerica
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  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    My family is from Hungary and it seems they were all caltholic...don't know for sure though.
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  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    Germany - Christians (Protestant and Catholic) make up about 2/3 of the population
    Canada - Christianity
    Hungary - majority religion is Catholicism (50% of population)
    France - hard to say. Traditionally a high Catholic population, but more declaring themselves atheist.
    Netherlands - high atheist population. Biggest religious group is the Catholics, but with like a third of the population, if that much.
    Norway - Christian
    Thialand - Buddhist
    Vietnam - Buddhist
    Australia - Christian
    New Zealand - Christian
    United States of AMerica - Christian

    Of course, these are just based off statistical information, not talking about frequency of attending worship, level of devotion, etc.
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    Excuse my ignorance but what would you called Christian. you have catholic and prodestant and wouldn't baptists and the like be forms of of Prodestants.
    Was vietnam under French rule for a while ?
    Would it have a strong Catholic population.

    Ireland is mainly split between Catholic and prodestants with alot of atheist's.
  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    I agree, I am a catholic, which means I am a christian. I don't undertand how people seperate those.
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    I never really realised the Germany situation. I know that Martin Luther started the Prodestant religion there but does Bavaria and most south Germany have a strong Catholic following.
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    humanlight wrote:
    I agree, I am a catholic, which means I am a christian. I don't undertand how people seperate those.

    If you where asked you religion would you call yourself a Catholic or a Christian?
  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    I say Christian, then people usually say "Oh what church to you go to?" I say Catholic, and they say "OH."

    Actually, I have never been sooooo furious as when I went to my Husband's Baptist church and they were MAKING FUN OF CATHOLICS!!!!!! I was mortafied. These people who are sappost to be godly beings are making fun of another christian religion! My husband said that Baptist think that Catholics are going to Hell.

    I am not sure how, but somewhere in History us humans really screwed up religion. I don't think any of them got it right honestly.
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    Not sure about Catholicism in America but they was the Penal Laws in Ireland where the catholic church was forbidden. People used to go up to mountains to pray. I know in the middle ages they believed that moon was made of cheese and so fort.
  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    He He, that is funny. I am was just astonished to see them talking negatively about me. They did not even know me! I don't know, I guess this is just one of my soap boxes.
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    The two main changes I would like to see in the catholic. I would let priest's marry and let women before priests.
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    I would always call myself a Catholic when asked. What percentage of AMerica is cAtholic? I persume all Italians, Mexicans and Irish are?
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    fada wrote:
    I would always call myself a Catholic when asked. What percentage of AMerica is cAtholic? I persume all Italians, Mexicans and Irish are?

    don't know the exact figures...but catholics are GREATLY out-numbered by all denomenations of protestants. and it is a safe assumption that the vast majority of italian, irish and mexican immigrants are at least brought up in catholicism, but if they actually follow the faith/practice into adulthood is debatable. however, christians as a whole (catholics + protestants0 greatly out-number all other religions in this country...altho i DO think that is changing. muslims are growing in #s...and we do have a very large percentage of those of jewish faith...and sure a smattering of just about any religious affiliation out there.
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  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    Pardon the differentiation between Catholics and Christians that I made. I was just reciting stats I had.

    For the record, I have no ax to grind with Catholics. I myself am a Methodist, but my wife is a Catholic. We're both Christians.
  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    fada wrote:
    Excuse my ignorance but what would you called Christian. you have catholic and prodestant and wouldn't baptists and the like be forms of of Prodestants.
    Was vietnam under French rule for a while ?
    Would it have a strong Catholic population.

    Ireland is mainly split between Catholic and prodestants with alot of atheist's.
    You didn't ask about Ireland. As for Vietnam, like most of Southeast Asia (with the notable exception of the Philippines, which has a large Catholic population going back to colonial days and is one of the strongest Dioceses in Asia), there is a devout population of Christians, but a small one.
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    I was always suprised that Mother Thersea was a Catholic seeing that she was India.

    What are the differences between the prodestant and methodist churchs.
  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    fada wrote:
    I was always suprised that Mother Thersea was a Catholic seeing that she was India.
    Her mission work was in India, but she was born to a Catholic family in Albania.
    What are the differences between the prodestant and methodist churchs.
    Methodists ARE Protestants.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    christianity is divided into two sectors, catholicism and protestantism. under each are various denomenations of such, but still only two main sectors. catholicism is mostly thought of the roman catholic church, but there is also the russian orthodox, and possibly others i am unawares. protestants have more numerous denomenations, methodists, lutherans, etc.

    i am sure in most of the worlds religions it is the same. there seems to be many different denomenations, or ways of practice, of judiasm, muslims, buddhists, etc.


    *edit - correct term, thanks to dkst0426, the vocab escaped me at the time of posting. :)
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  • meconium
    meconium Posts: 40
    god is for idiots
    know that
  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    meconium wrote:
    god is for idiots
    know that


    ...but the bible has such fancy writing in it.
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  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    decides2dream wrote:
    christianity is divided into two sectors, catholicism and protestantism. under each are various sects of such, but still only two main sectors. catholicism is mostly thought of the roman catholic church, but there is also the russian orthodox, and possibly others i am unawares. protestants have more numerous sects, methodists, lutherans, etc.

    i am sure in most of the worlds religions it is the same. there seems to be many different sects of judiasm, muslim, buddhists, etc.
    Not to be nitpicky, but the technical term would be "denominations."

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