What is the number of Christians in the present world?

Question

If you consider Catholics and Unitarians and others as non-Christians
and also nominal Christians.

Answer 1

According to www.wikipedia.org =>

"With an estimated 2.1 billion adherents in 2001, Christianity is the world's largest religion. It is the predominant religion in the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and large parts of Africa."

The real question should really be, how many are active believers and not just part of statistics? It would be a lot more interesting to find that out I think. This goes for almost any religion of course.

The official statistics don't list active believers but more like citizens of different nations where whatever the predominant religion is, the people are often counted to belong to that particular religion, without regard to whether they actually believe at all.

Answer 2

8

Answer 3

What's nominal is your ability to use your brain. You are fixated on the world conforming to your ideas, which is infantile. Religion is not a sport, where you have teams that earn "points."

To explain spirituality would be a waste of time. It's just way over your head.

Answer 4

Wow, another one that should have his breeding license revoked!

Uneasy Rider ~ The Charlie Daniels Band


I was takin a trip out to L.A.
Toolin along in my cheverolet
Tokin on a number and diggin on the radio

Just as I crossed the Mississippi line
I heard that highway start to whine
And I knew that left rear tire was about to blow

Well the spare was flat and I got uptight
Cause there wasn't a filling station in sight
So I just limped on down the shoulder on the rim

I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car
It was right in front of this little bar
Kind of a red-neck lookin joint called the Dew Drop Inn

I stuffed my hair up under my hat
And told the bartender that I had a flat
And ywould he be kind enough to give me change for a one

There was one thing I was sure proud to see
There wasn't a soul in the place except for him and me
He just looked disgusted and pointed toward the telephone

I called up the station down the road a ways
He said he wasn't very busy today
And he could have somone out there in just about 10 minutes or so

He said," Now, you just stay right where yer at!"
And I didn't bother to tell the darn fool
That I sure as hell didn't have anyplace else to go

I just ordered up a beer and sat down at the bar
When some guy walked in and said, "Who owns this car
With the peace sign, the mag wheels and the four on the floor?"

He looked at me and I damn near died
And I decided that I'd just wait outside
So I laid a dollar on the bar and headed for the door

Just when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin
These 5 big dudes come strollin in
With one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth

I was almost to the door when the biggest one
Said, "You tip your hat to this lady, son!"
And when I did, all that hair fell out from underneath

Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight
In Jackson Mississippi on a Saturday night
Especially when there was three of them and only one of me

They all started laughin and I felt kinda sick
And I knew I better think of something pretty quick
So I just reached out and kicked old green teeth right in the knee

Now he let out a yell that'd curl yer hair
But before he could move I grabbed me a chair
And said "Now watch him Folks cause he's a thoroughly dangerous man!"

"You may not know it but this man is a spy.
He's a undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!"

He was still bent over holdin on to his knee
But everybody else was looking and listening to me
And I laid it on thicker and heavier as I went

I said, "Would you believe this man has gone as far
As tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars.
And he voted for George McGovern for President."

"Well, he's a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he's even got a commie flag
tacked up on the wall inside of his garage."

"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys.
He may look dumb but that's just a disguise,
He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage"

They all started lookin real suspicious at him
And he jumped up and said "Now just wait a minute Jim!
You know he's lying I been living here all of my life!"

"I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church.
And I aint even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife!"

Then he started saying somethin bout the way I was dressed
But I didn't wait around to hear the rest
I was too busy moving and hoping I didn't run outta luck

When I hit the ground I was making tracks
And they were just taking my car down off the jacks
So I threw the man a twenty and jumped in and fired that mother up

Mario Andretti wouldda sure been proud
Of the way I was movin when I passed that crowd
Coming out the door and headed toward me at a trot

And I guess I should of gone ahead and run
But somehow I just couldn't resist the fun
Of chasing them all just once around the parking lot

Well they headed for their car, but i hit the gas
And spun around and headed them off at the pass
I was slinging gravel and putting a ton of dust in the air

I had them all out there steppin and fetchin
Like their heads was on fire and their asses was catchin
then I figgered I had better go ahead and split before the cops got there

When I hit the road I was really wheelin
Had gravel flyin and rubber squeelin
And I didn't slow down till I was almost to Arkansas

I think I'm gonna reroute my trip
I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped
If I went to L.A., via Omaha

Answer 5

Too many more than we certainly need. We'd be lots better off without those fanatic idiots.

Answer 6

oh please when will you ever stop bashing my faith I am Christian there is no sucH thing as you speak of us, stop this please!!!!THROUGH ME ONLY THE DUMB SHALL SPEAK! THE WRONGS OF THE WORDLESS ARE WEEK!
TILL THE DEAF OF WORLD'S !! MY EAR BE MADE TO HEAR THE! CONDEMN ME NOT FOR GOD WILL HEAR THE AND PUNISH THOSE WHO CONDEMN ONE ANOTHER! Do you not see everyday the killings across the Globe the World is coming nears its end! please stop the bashing of religion!

Answer 7

a third of the world, two some billion

Answer 8

catholics are christians, they make up most of christianity

Answer 9

so you're asking how many protestants and Orthodoses there are in the world

Answer 10

2.1 billion (there are about 6.5 billion people in the world)