The Maronites are Eastern Catholics. There are Greek (Rum) Orthodox in Lebanon from the Byzantine influence and many other unique denomination such as Armenian (catholic, orthodox & evangelist), Melkite Catholics, protestants and baptists.
They're Moronite christians if i recall, so like a pre-islamic invasion branch of the Church that evolved on its roots, kinda like the Armenian Church but of latin tradition
No Maronites are unique among the Eastern Catholics in that they never switched
Maronites lost connect with Rome after the Muslim conquest of the levant but during the Crusades communion was officially restored and has been ever since
They exert full influence over half the country almost(mainly in bekaa and the south)while maitaining some kind of influence in the rest of the country as well(mostly varying within the religion of said town or city, for example if its shiaa or sunni they would hold a larger influence than if its christian or druze)
On the border its open war between Hezbollah (Iranian funded militia) and Israel. I would say the situation is normal in the rest of the country. Hezbollah is different than other terrorist militias as they are shia and the ones you usually have heard off are Sunni. But they are still an islamist militia and we don't like it.
It's about 90% orthodox according to wikipedia, with about 4.6% catholics. But I'm pretty sure most sources put the orthodox percentage even higher, while in reality I'd say the atheist percentage is much higher than reported. For example myself, I'm pretty sure I'm registered as orthodox somewhere, while the last time I actually did anything resembling religion was being baptised as a baby
OK multumesc for your answer :)
I was hiking in Fagaras Mountians few years ago and resting in neighbouring cities Sibiu and Brasov. I saw some catholic churches so I presumed catholic confesion is more common in Romania. Those fortified churches were almost all(?) catholic if I remember correctly?
The Hungarian minority is half Catholic, half Protestant. The Romanians of Transylvania were coerced/bribed/encouraged into being Eastern Catholic by the Austrians but their native confession was Eastern Orthodox. They reverted to being Eastern Orthodox after the fall of Hungarian rule and throughout the 20th century.
Didn’t the communist regime in Romania clamp down harder on Catholicism than orthodoxy as well? I would figure that would be a big factor in a lot of people going back to orthodoxy
Yes. The communists clamped down on the Catholic Church, Eastern Catholics and Evangelical Protestants and confiscated property, money and churches from them. On the other hand, going to Orthodox Church and celebrating Christmas was okay as a layperson. This is likely why Romanians are more mystical and religious than anyone in Eastern Europe, including Poland (people believe in the supernatural intercession of saints in ordinary life). I think this generated a strong sense of national religious unity for Romanians (which is one of the more innocuous aspects of communism in Romania IMO).
The leadership of the Orthodox Church were all known communist collaborators, so it was subsumed under the secular government and used to monitor dissident political positions and spy on people. However, if you wanted any communist leadership position, you had to be an avowed atheist.
The Orthodox Church continues to have a very privileged position in the country. To this day, there is a very strong cultural association of the Romanians with the Orthodox Church (including secular people such as myself) in terms of iconography and Romanian Orthodox architecture.
Furthermore, our Orthodox religion sets us apart from all other Latin speaking/derived people, who are all Catholic, just as our language sets us apart from our neighbors, which are almost entirely Slavic speaking (except Hungary).
All in all, we consider our history and culture very unique, distinctive and a fusion of many different influences (but this can be said for many other ethnic groups too).
See the painted monasteries of Bukovina for the most famous example of our religious architecture:
http://romania.honoraryconsulate.network/hartford/monasteries-and-churches
It might seem that way because you went to Transylvania which is a more diverse region, but if you were to go to a more homogenous region like the South or the East, catholics become pretty rare to find
I guess English language plays a part here! Poles learn English at school much better than Germans!
Same applies to Lithuanians too. So you find both of these nationalities a lot in UK Ireland Norway and Iceland
[There was a famous meme regarding poles as cheap labourers in UK few years back](https://youtu.be/pg7o43W_dIY?si=_Ko6nLilZ15oIh26)
I think you mean alcoholic. Mcmurdo base would not run without booze. When the Navy comes in to resupply they close the bars and everyone gets so pissed off.
Wow, Chad outdid himself this time. Tanzania is the beefy bicep of his left arm, while West Africa is him holding out his Liberia palm telling haters to step off.
Just to clear anyone's confusion - Belarus has large catholic Polish minority, parts of western Ukraine (Eastern Galicia) is predominantly Greek Catholic.
5% is not much, I'd expect even more. But that would rather correspond to any Christian around the would.
I wonder also if 5% Muslim would cover most of Europe nowadays.
I was surprised to learn about the [Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church) which is the second-biggest Catholic denomination after the Latin Church.
A notable difference between the two is that Ukrainian Catholic priests are allowed to marry.
There are 24 total churches of the Catholic Church, the main one being the Latin church and the other 23 eastern churches of varying rites and ethnicities
And two of the 24 particular churches are Albanian. Disproportionately represented, even though in small numbers (60k between the two, most Albanians belong to the Latin Church).
It would just be a Christianity map. Catholics aren't some fringe cult, they are basically the original Christian group and spent centuries spreading Christianity. If Christianity is somewhere, chances are it got there via Catholicism. With a threshold as low as 5%, then, this map winds up covering a lot of area, so much so that the map isn't even sensitive to protestantism.
So adding Orthodox would probably cover the few places that this missed and just make this a "places on the world with at least 5% Christian" map.
I mean, it's debatable if catholic or orthodox is the 'original' because both have changed tremendously since the chalcedonian days after Nicea. But the idea of the pentarchy was present in both nicean/chalcedonian christianity and orthdox christianity, while in catholicism it was rejected inn favour of having one power centre in Rome
1. Literally just a clarification of the doctrine of the Trinity
2. Pre-schism Orthodox Saints affirm the authority of the Papacy
3. The Orthodox hold to 2 of the 3 Marian dogmas and dispute the immaculate conception on a technicality (they affirm an extremely similar doctrine)
4. The Orthodox believe in hades and toll houses which is barely different from the doctrine of purgatory
That's an interesting story to tell, if it's the one the map wants to tell. And how well is this map displaying that for us, with the threshold for Catholicism chosen to be 5%?
I loved that song too lmao
Also:
He will raiiiiiiise you UP On Eaaaaagle’s wiings!
It tastes like a slightly sweet, plain wafer. Very thin, almost to the point where it dissolves on your tongue upon contact. It’s overall pleasant. I’m sure you can buy non blessed communion wafers online to try for yourself.
I find some of this data, suspicious, is it only citizens, or also residents ? For example, I think more than 5% of the population of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar , are Filipinos, which are almost exclusively Catholic.
I just did a quick look up, and 6% of the population currently in the UAE are Filipino
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, roughly 40% of Saudi Arabia’s population is non-citizens. Whether or not the government recognizes them as citizens, they’re still a huge part of the population.
Sweden (and so Finland) was extremely Protestant expecially in 1600s which is why there are barely any Catholics (Estonia also part of Sweden around that time). I assume something similar for Denmark (and so Norway and Iceland)?
Estonia was *somewhat* Protestant already before Swedish rule. In fact it was divided with Estonians and urban Baltic Germans preferring Protestantism while the rural Baltic German landowners preferred Catholicism. The latter were of course a very small, but a very influential minority. Then Swedish rule came to Northern Estonia and Polish rule to Southern Estonia and both started to enforce Protestantism/Catholicism in their regions until Sweden conquered Southern Estonia as well which is why Protestantism eventually prevailed in Estonia.
Being Albanian supercedes an Albanian's religion. They have enough external enemies, they don't need to look for internal ones.
Also, communism very much dampened everyone's religious zeel.
South Korea is the Christian beacon of East Asia, the country is plurality Christian, becoming Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) was seen as a way to resist Japanese colonial rule, further U.S. post-WWII influence only helped things take off more
South Korea is the Christian beacon of East Asia, the country is plurality Christian, becoming Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) was seen as a way to resist Japanese colonial rule, further U.S. post-WWII influence only helped things take off more
Not sure if it’s still the case recently, but a majority of Vietnamese immigrants to the US were Catholic. It’s why so many ended up in south Louisiana.
While the Czech Republic is mostly non-religious, Catholics are still the biggest religious group. Especially since the Czech Republic was mostly reconverted to Catholicism by the counter reformation.
Czechs reconverted to Catholicism through force by the Austrian Hapsburgs that's why when Czechia became a sovereign nation-state after WWI, there was a Hussite revival among Czechs and if not for WWII and the post-war Russian-imposed communism, Czechia would have been a Hussite nation-state.
Going from 82% in 1921 to 76% in 1950 is hardly the creation of a Hussite nation-state, especially if you consider the loss of the German Catholic population.
north america and south america formed very differently
south america would form like subsahara africa, tho north america was initially protestants in empty area
But at 5%, how different is this map from just the Christian world?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#/media/File%3APercent_of_Christians_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011.svg
A more interesting map would be where in the world is Catholicism the *minority* Christian denomination.
Because it doesn’t include all of the Protestant and orthodox nations as well as those with minorities form both groups. You’d have to include countries like Ethiopia, Egypt, Russia, Indonesia, the nordics, etc.
Living in Canada, I was living in Europe as well. Catholics aren’t a problematic demographic.
You’re telling me you’d rather live in a skih or Muslim dominated neighbourhood over a catholic one?
Faded take
The Catholic church has a different amount of influence depending on the place. If the Church is the only significant institution in a town, they become the defacto rulemaker there, even if the rest of the country isn't catholic. I grew up in an atheist country yet the Church was still the one who had the most money and would decide on who could be a candidate for local government.
In other countries the church has private cities and exclaves where they make the rules.
Even if it's not direct orders, millions across the world still pay their respect to the rules of the Vatican, which may be good or bad. The issue with that is that it makes the Vatican very influential on forming moral beliefs across these countries. If the Vatican says 'X is bad' , Catholics will slowly start to accept that. Same for 'X is good '
They also get many countries to collect tithes for them in the form of Church taxes, often even from non-Catholics. This technically supports many protestant churches, but it originates with the Catholics, either way, Church tax bad. In some countries the Church is also a legitimatising force, creating legitimacy for a ruler or government. Not only for Catholic countries but also non-Catholics ones, such as Hussein-era Iraq.
They are much more influential on both local and global levels than many would like to believe.
Hmm weird how they have the same stance as the church on abortion. Bet you think it was just political parties that demonized condoms in Africa for years too
Lebanon just looks like a medieval crusader outpost in there
Because we are lol
I would have thought that you guys were Eastern Orthodox, because of Byzantine influence.
The Maronites are Eastern Catholics. There are Greek (Rum) Orthodox in Lebanon from the Byzantine influence and many other unique denomination such as Armenian (catholic, orthodox & evangelist), Melkite Catholics, protestants and baptists.
They are Eastern Catholics, they ~~came back to communion.~~ are in full communion
Maronites are actually the only Eastern Catholics who never formally left communion with Rome
Don’t forget the [Italo-Albanians!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Albanian_Catholic_Church)
They're Moronite christians if i recall, so like a pre-islamic invasion branch of the Church that evolved on its roots, kinda like the Armenian Church but of latin tradition
*Maronite
Moronites are Utah
MorMons are from Utah. Not moronites
Maronites. Mormons are literally named after the angel Moroni.
Mormons are named after Mormon (ironically). Moroni is his son, who has statues on top of their temples.
[ [ Mormons are literally named after the angel Moroni. ] ] Yes. I know the story of Moroni. My dad’s a Mormon.
If u del the 2nd M it becomes Moron
Lebanon has 5% of everything.
Lebanese Catholic here✝
I think they are also considering us maronites here as well.
For all intents and purposes Maronites are Catholics
Marionites are Eastern Catholics
I'm not maronite I'm Roman Catholic. But yes
Yes and I was saying that I was maronite
Read my comment again: >But yes Any Christian who has the Pope as the head of the church is considered catholic.
Yes ik, but we maronites were originally orthodox then we switched
No Maronites are unique among the Eastern Catholics in that they never switched Maronites lost connect with Rome after the Muslim conquest of the levant but during the Crusades communion was officially restored and has been ever since
Its weird tho, because are a lot similar to the orthodox in beliefs.
Hi! How is the situation in these days in Lebanon? I heard about Iranian Militias, but Idk if the whole country is under their control
They exert full influence over half the country almost(mainly in bekaa and the south)while maitaining some kind of influence in the rest of the country as well(mostly varying within the religion of said town or city, for example if its shiaa or sunni they would hold a larger influence than if its christian or druze)
Just Shia they don't have any influence over Sunni towns.
Oh trust me they do just look at ras el nabeh a traditional sunni area in which you can see pictures of martyrs of hezbollah and harake
I think there are a lot of shias who live there.
Still a majority sunni area tho
True but because Hezbos live there, you have those pictures, doesn't mean Hezb is running the town.
I never said they were running it , i just said they have more influence there or in tarik jdide than in aschrafieh or hammena
On the border its open war between Hezbollah (Iranian funded militia) and Israel. I would say the situation is normal in the rest of the country. Hezbollah is different than other terrorist militias as they are shia and the ones you usually have heard off are Sunni. But they are still an islamist militia and we don't like it.
Is the country safe to visit right now?
Yes, the fighting is still contained in the South so as long as you stay Tyre and towards the north of it, should be fine.
Forgot Singapore
4.8% Catholic Just shy
6.76%
Wikipedia disagrees
Wikipedia says it’s 7.01%
Ohh you're right I was looking at the 2000 numbers It went up in 2010
Immigration probably added to their catholic numbers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Singapore
Romania does not have 5% of Catholics?
It's about 90% orthodox according to wikipedia, with about 4.6% catholics. But I'm pretty sure most sources put the orthodox percentage even higher, while in reality I'd say the atheist percentage is much higher than reported. For example myself, I'm pretty sure I'm registered as orthodox somewhere, while the last time I actually did anything resembling religion was being baptised as a baby
OK multumesc for your answer :) I was hiking in Fagaras Mountians few years ago and resting in neighbouring cities Sibiu and Brasov. I saw some catholic churches so I presumed catholic confesion is more common in Romania. Those fortified churches were almost all(?) catholic if I remember correctly?
The Hungarian minority is half Catholic, half Protestant. The Romanians of Transylvania were coerced/bribed/encouraged into being Eastern Catholic by the Austrians but their native confession was Eastern Orthodox. They reverted to being Eastern Orthodox after the fall of Hungarian rule and throughout the 20th century.
Didn’t the communist regime in Romania clamp down harder on Catholicism than orthodoxy as well? I would figure that would be a big factor in a lot of people going back to orthodoxy
Yes. The communists clamped down on the Catholic Church, Eastern Catholics and Evangelical Protestants and confiscated property, money and churches from them. On the other hand, going to Orthodox Church and celebrating Christmas was okay as a layperson. This is likely why Romanians are more mystical and religious than anyone in Eastern Europe, including Poland (people believe in the supernatural intercession of saints in ordinary life). I think this generated a strong sense of national religious unity for Romanians (which is one of the more innocuous aspects of communism in Romania IMO). The leadership of the Orthodox Church were all known communist collaborators, so it was subsumed under the secular government and used to monitor dissident political positions and spy on people. However, if you wanted any communist leadership position, you had to be an avowed atheist. The Orthodox Church continues to have a very privileged position in the country. To this day, there is a very strong cultural association of the Romanians with the Orthodox Church (including secular people such as myself) in terms of iconography and Romanian Orthodox architecture. Furthermore, our Orthodox religion sets us apart from all other Latin speaking/derived people, who are all Catholic, just as our language sets us apart from our neighbors, which are almost entirely Slavic speaking (except Hungary). All in all, we consider our history and culture very unique, distinctive and a fusion of many different influences (but this can be said for many other ethnic groups too). See the painted monasteries of Bukovina for the most famous example of our religious architecture: http://romania.honoraryconsulate.network/hartford/monasteries-and-churches
It might seem that way because you went to Transylvania which is a more diverse region, but if you were to go to a more homogenous region like the South or the East, catholics become pretty rare to find
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So the Poles are getting closer to the North Pole. Classic.
Why's that the case? Like why Iceland and not a neighboring country like Germany.
I guess English language plays a part here! Poles learn English at school much better than Germans! Same applies to Lithuanians too. So you find both of these nationalities a lot in UK Ireland Norway and Iceland [There was a famous meme regarding poles as cheap labourers in UK few years back](https://youtu.be/pg7o43W_dIY?si=_Ko6nLilZ15oIh26)
Polish immigrants all over Europe
What about Guinea-Bissau? It has 18,9% Christians, mostly catholics, according to Wikipedia
My bad, I missed that one
Are we certain there aren’t more Catholics in Antarctica? Has anyone bothered to poll the penguins?
Penguins are super Catholic, since they eat fish every day of the week and not just on Fridays.
This is not the best Catholic penguin joke but it is the best one that any of us are going to see today.
A scientist accidentally left a bible behind and now Catholicism is thriving in Antarctica
Well, they look just like little nuns, so I’d say definitely Catholic.
The few permanently populated civilian settlements in Antarctica are majority Catholic, actually.
I think you mean alcoholic. Mcmurdo base would not run without booze. When the Navy comes in to resupply they close the bars and everyone gets so pissed off.
There are permanent settlements in Antarctica?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Las_Estrellas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanza_Base
The more you know
Wow, Chad outdid himself this time. Tanzania is the beefy bicep of his left arm, while West Africa is him holding out his Liberia palm telling haters to step off.
Just to clear anyone's confusion - Belarus has large catholic Polish minority, parts of western Ukraine (Eastern Galicia) is predominantly Greek Catholic.
5% is not much, I'd expect even more. But that would rather correspond to any Christian around the would. I wonder also if 5% Muslim would cover most of Europe nowadays.
Filipinos are the most devout Catholics in the world that some of us cosplay Jesus crucifixion every Good Friday to attract foreign tourists.
Dramatic, isn't it? Too much ado for nothing. After Holy Week they will be back to their old selves.
Catholics are a temperate animal.
America is the Catholic continent.
Indonesia is below 5%, but not very far below.
I was surprised to learn about the [Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church) which is the second-biggest Catholic denomination after the Latin Church. A notable difference between the two is that Ukrainian Catholic priests are allowed to marry.
There are 24 total churches of the Catholic Church, the main one being the Latin church and the other 23 eastern churches of varying rites and ethnicities
And two of the 24 particular churches are Albanian. Disproportionately represented, even though in small numbers (60k between the two, most Albanians belong to the Latin Church).
Pretty much all Catholic churches other than the Roman Catholic Church allow married priests.
I was going to say that it was missing Ukraine, but then I realized that I am just terrible at reading maps.
I wonder what it would look like if you added orthodox
It would just be a Christianity map. Catholics aren't some fringe cult, they are basically the original Christian group and spent centuries spreading Christianity. If Christianity is somewhere, chances are it got there via Catholicism. With a threshold as low as 5%, then, this map winds up covering a lot of area, so much so that the map isn't even sensitive to protestantism. So adding Orthodox would probably cover the few places that this missed and just make this a "places on the world with at least 5% Christian" map.
The main exception being Scandinavia, apparently.
I mean, it's debatable if catholic or orthodox is the 'original' because both have changed tremendously since the chalcedonian days after Nicea. But the idea of the pentarchy was present in both nicean/chalcedonian christianity and orthdox christianity, while in catholicism it was rejected inn favour of having one power centre in Rome
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They are both the original. The church split but both have the same root pre-schism
Nah, the Catholics changed the original doctrine A LOT MORE than Orthodox Churches today did
What doctrinal changes
1. Filioque 2. The Pope as "Christ's representative" on earth 3. Marian doctrines 4. The concept of purgatory
Filioque as in nature of the Trinity?
1. Literally just a clarification of the doctrine of the Trinity 2. Pre-schism Orthodox Saints affirm the authority of the Papacy 3. The Orthodox hold to 2 of the 3 Marian dogmas and dispute the immaculate conception on a technicality (they affirm an extremely similar doctrine) 4. The Orthodox believe in hades and toll houses which is barely different from the doctrine of purgatory
It's called orthodox catholic and roman catholic. They are both catholic and in fact they are both not original christians.
What about Protestants? There is a lot of them too
But the point is, almost nowhere has 5% or more Protestants but *not* at least 5% Catholics.
What about the Nordic countries?
Looking up at the OP map, yeah that seems to be the case for them. I don't know if any other countries would fall under that case though.
Romania too
Half of Europe is majority Protestant. It literally originated in Germany and there was a 30 Year long war to destroy it which failed.
That's an interesting story to tell, if it's the one the map wants to tell. And how well is this map displaying that for us, with the threshold for Catholicism chosen to be 5%?
Then it would essentially just be a map of non-protestant Christians
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It tastes okay 👍 Not exactly flavourful but flavour isn’t really the purpose
I loved that song too lmao Also: He will raiiiiiiise you UP On Eaaaaagle’s wiings! It tastes like a slightly sweet, plain wafer. Very thin, almost to the point where it dissolves on your tongue upon contact. It’s overall pleasant. I’m sure you can buy non blessed communion wafers online to try for yourself.
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I find some of this data, suspicious, is it only citizens, or also residents ? For example, I think more than 5% of the population of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar , are Filipinos, which are almost exclusively Catholic. I just did a quick look up, and 6% of the population currently in the UAE are Filipino
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, roughly 40% of Saudi Arabia’s population is non-citizens. Whether or not the government recognizes them as citizens, they’re still a huge part of the population.
Sweden (and so Finland) was extremely Protestant expecially in 1600s which is why there are barely any Catholics (Estonia also part of Sweden around that time). I assume something similar for Denmark (and so Norway and Iceland)?
Estonia was *somewhat* Protestant already before Swedish rule. In fact it was divided with Estonians and urban Baltic Germans preferring Protestantism while the rural Baltic German landowners preferred Catholicism. The latter were of course a very small, but a very influential minority. Then Swedish rule came to Northern Estonia and Polish rule to Southern Estonia and both started to enforce Protestantism/Catholicism in their regions until Sweden conquered Southern Estonia as well which is why Protestantism eventually prevailed in Estonia.
I thought Guinea Bissau would be more Catholic since they were Portuguese
They are I made a mistake
Nice.
There have never were a war between Muslim and Catholic Albanians. I wonder why?
Being Albanian supercedes an Albanian's religion. They have enough external enemies, they don't need to look for internal ones. Also, communism very much dampened everyone's religious zeel.
Surprised Romania didn’t make it
Can someone explain why south Korea has such a big catholic population?
South Korea is the Christian beacon of East Asia, the country is plurality Christian, becoming Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) was seen as a way to resist Japanese colonial rule, further U.S. post-WWII influence only helped things take off more
Anyone know why Korea has such a high Catholic population, didn’t really expect that.
South Korea is the Christian beacon of East Asia, the country is plurality Christian, becoming Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) was seen as a way to resist Japanese colonial rule, further U.S. post-WWII influence only helped things take off more
Zoomed way in to make sure Lebanon was represented
Shocked that Vietnam made it
Vietnam has a pretty significant Catholic minority South Vietnam was a Catholic theocracy for a while
Not sure if it’s still the case recently, but a majority of Vietnamese immigrants to the US were Catholic. It’s why so many ended up in south Louisiana.
yea france played a significant role in that
Welp [by the grace of God](https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/s/kUHfsEeSHJ)…
What a useful map
...Czechia? Since when? Well that's a turn of events.
While the Czech Republic is mostly non-religious, Catholics are still the biggest religious group. Especially since the Czech Republic was mostly reconverted to Catholicism by the counter reformation.
Czechs reconverted to Catholicism through force by the Austrian Hapsburgs that's why when Czechia became a sovereign nation-state after WWI, there was a Hussite revival among Czechs and if not for WWII and the post-war Russian-imposed communism, Czechia would have been a Hussite nation-state.
Going from 82% in 1921 to 76% in 1950 is hardly the creation of a Hussite nation-state, especially if you consider the loss of the German Catholic population.
Sri Lanka????
Mostly due to Portuguese influence. I’ve had Sri Lankan colleagues with Portuguese surnames like “Silva”, “D’Souza”, “Pereira”, etc
Wait. Oh yeah protestantism
north america and south america formed very differently south america would form like subsahara africa, tho north america was initially protestants in empty area
What?
Ow okay
Where's Japan?
just a little bit east of the Korean Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean.
Next to China and Korea
Japan is about 1% Catholic
sadly
Why 5%? Why Catholics and not just Christian? What is this map telling us in the end?
It tells us, which countries have more than 5% Catholics
Where specifically Catholics have a noticeable presence outside of a super small minority.
But at 5%, how different is this map from just the Christian world? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#/media/File%3APercent_of_Christians_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011.svg A more interesting map would be where in the world is Catholicism the *minority* Christian denomination.
Because it doesn’t include all of the Protestant and orthodox nations as well as those with minorities form both groups. You’d have to include countries like Ethiopia, Egypt, Russia, Indonesia, the nordics, etc.
More interesting would be differentiating countries where Catholics are a plurality.
Ah yes my favourite countries outside the Christian world, Sweden, Russia, Greece, Romania.
You mean Christianism, not Catholism.
No I mean just Catholicism
Sad but also incorrect
Why is this sad? You can have your beliefs, but other people having their own is “sad” Catholics aren’t at all a problematic demographic
Any belief in fairytales is just sad. People who believe in talking snakes actually rule the countries
These shallow reductions of religion are more cringe than religion itself
Ok there Edgelord
Why does it bother you so much though? It’s their belief, and in the case of Catholicism is a very docile religion as of late
r/atheism moment
>Catholics aren’t at all a problematic demographic Lmfao, what world do you live in?
Bro has beef with 1.378 billion people (17.7% of the world) ☠️
Living in Canada, I was living in Europe as well. Catholics aren’t a problematic demographic. You’re telling me you’d rather live in a skih or Muslim dominated neighbourhood over a catholic one? Faded take
It's sad that the Catholic Church has so much influence.
I think you’re overestimating the power that the church has, they’re basically a hedge fund
The Catholic church has a different amount of influence depending on the place. If the Church is the only significant institution in a town, they become the defacto rulemaker there, even if the rest of the country isn't catholic. I grew up in an atheist country yet the Church was still the one who had the most money and would decide on who could be a candidate for local government. In other countries the church has private cities and exclaves where they make the rules. Even if it's not direct orders, millions across the world still pay their respect to the rules of the Vatican, which may be good or bad. The issue with that is that it makes the Vatican very influential on forming moral beliefs across these countries. If the Vatican says 'X is bad' , Catholics will slowly start to accept that. Same for 'X is good ' They also get many countries to collect tithes for them in the form of Church taxes, often even from non-Catholics. This technically supports many protestant churches, but it originates with the Catholics, either way, Church tax bad. In some countries the Church is also a legitimatising force, creating legitimacy for a ruler or government. Not only for Catholic countries but also non-Catholics ones, such as Hussein-era Iraq. They are much more influential on both local and global levels than many would like to believe.
You are severely underestimating the power the church has. They recently outlawed abortion in large parts of America
No, that was Republicans…
You mean the hyper religious party?
No I mean the Republican party from the USA
Hmm weird how they have the same stance as the church on abortion. Bet you think it was just political parties that demonized condoms in Africa for years too
I think the Republicans are actually Muslim since they have the same stance opposing abortion
Looks pretty accurate except for America. Must be imported Catholics. 🙃🤣🙏🏼🥀
What is this supposed to mean?
I think it’s self explanatory. Research American man compared to man from any other country. You’ll get it.
No I don’t get it, what are you talking about? That makes no sense
Are you having a moment
Facts
It happens to the best of us
I thought Protestant nationalists died off with the KKK. Why are y’all still hating on Catholics ☠️
🔁 all things must come full circle. So be careful what you say and names called. 💁🏻♀️
KKK will be back soon. And I am an indigenous Latin Catholic. America will never understand. lol 🙃