Inflated numbers

[PhilVaz]

nondenom << Hi All I found this website very interesting. I know what most of you will say, but I’m still interested in you feedback. In Him and Only Him. >>

Thanks, I found it stupid. Svendsen is obliterated here (already linked above, thank you)

How Many Protestant Denominations Are There?

There is one “Roman Catholic” denomination for each country Barrett lists. Svendsen doesn’t know how to read and leaves that fact out.

How many “Roman Catholic” denominations are there in the United States according to Barrett? ONE.

How many Protestant denominations? FIVE THOUSAND+

It gets worse when we move through Christianity across the globe. Svendsen can’t read, and No I do not find his site very interesting, except in the sense I find “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” Museums interesting.

Phil P

 

[Atreyu]

I read that article, Phil. How do they get 60 Orthodox denominations in the USA? I would have thought there to be half a dozen at the most?

 

[PhilVaz]

<< How do they get 60 Orthodox denominations in the USA? I would have thought there to be half a dozen at the most? >>

I do not know, I would have to re-check Barrett myself. I am aware of a couple Orthodox churches as you are, maybe there are many more that are more obscure. Would the "Evangelical Orthodox Church" be a separate Orthodox denomination? The one started by Peter Gillquist?

Phil P

 

[mark_a]

<< How do they get 60 Orthodox denominations in the USA? I would have thought there to be half a dozen at the most? >>

I do not know, I would have to re-check Barrett myself. I am aware of a couple Orthodox churches as you are, maybe there are many more that are more obscure. Would the "Evangelical Orthodox Church" be a separate Orthodox denomination? The one started by Peter Gillquist?

Phil P

I asked a similar question a while back, and come to find out not all Othodox Churches are (capital O) Orthodox.

Seems some independants or ex-something-or-other clergy take the name “Orthodox” upon themselves.

Fr. Ambrose or Orthodoc told me to find out who their pope is.

It’s deceitful as all get-out to name your brand-new denom after a church that’s 2000 years old.

And there are plenty of fake “catholics” to go around too.

 

[Atreyu]

Another litmus test for finding out whether a particular church is Catholic or Orthodox, suggested by none other than Augustine Aurelius:

“[T]here are many other things which most properly can keep me in [the Catholic Church’s] bosom. The unanimity of peoples and nations keeps me here. Her authority, inaugurated in miracles, nourished by hope, augmented by love, and confirmed by her age, keeps me here. The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15–17], up to the present episcopate, keeps me here. And last, the very name Catholic, which, not without reason, belongs to this Church alone, in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called ‘Catholic,’ when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house” (Against the Letter of Mani Called “The Foundation” 4:5 [A.D. 397]).

I seem to use this quote in a huge proportion of the threads that I participate in. It just seems to be useful in so many discussions.