I quikly read the other part of the discussion, but can't entirely recall it and don't know where it is !!!

imho, kafflics are a subset of christianity. VERY basically it could be said we all believe the same thing.
Though there are some pretty big differences.

Funny thing is, though I dont agree with many of the kafflick stuff, the kaffliks I know are pretty good people.

Been to a few kafflick churches, pretty ok with most of it all.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 10:03pm:

Grendel,

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99.99% of Christians don't follow all of Catholicisms beliefs, you just wrongly identified beliefs that weren't uniquely Catholic, but which are common to most Christians, ie. Trinity, Saints, Pope.

helian,

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Orthodox have their own popes, the problem was over the Eastern churches recognising the Latin dominated Western church as having primacy. We often don't realise that the Orthodox have their very own popes also. So it wasn't an opposition to the concept of 'popedom' but that they thought the pope should be from them perhaps. There were also many other factors involved, and in fact some Orthodox did re-integrate back into the Catholic church, but after the Crusades when the Western Christians sacked Constantinople and attacked their own fellow Christians, there was little hope of a full re-union.

abu_rashid wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2008 at 8:39am:

The heads of the Orthodox churches are known as Patriarchs. The term Pope is commonly used to refer to the Bishop of Rome. Since Pope John Paul II, there has been positive progress in healing the schism between the Roman Catholic church and the Orthodox churches. Recently the Orthodox churches have come to agree on the status of the Bishop of Rome as 'first among equals' (first among the Patriarchs) although there are still disagreements over what that means in terms of Papal authority.

The dialogue is continuing.

Catholic        1,050,000,000
Orthodox/Eastern Christian      240,000,000
African indigenous sects (AICs)      110,000,000
Pentecostal      105,000,000
Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United      75,000,000
Anglican      73,000,000
Baptist      70,000,000
Methodist      70,000,000
Lutheran      64,000,000
Jehovah's Witnesses      14,800,000
Adventist      12,000,000
Latter Day Saints      12,500,000
Apostolic/New Apostolic      10,000,000
Stone-Campbell ("Restoration Movement")      5,400,000
New Thought (Unity, Christian Science, etc.)      1,500,000
Brethren (incl. Plymouth)      1,500,000
Mennonite      1,250,000
Friends (Quakers)      300,000

I think these figures are about twenty years old, so we could expect to have seen a rise in the numbers of the evangelical branch numbers.

It shows a diversity of christians, of which catholics make up a little over half.

Mozza,

Is that from adherents.com? They have so many different conflicting figures.

Anyway, it's safe to say from all figures that Catholics are the largest group of Christians, followed by traditional Protestants (ie. the original European Protestants, not the reformed American  movements, which mostly stem from Protestantism/Anglicanism) and then Orthodox.

All 3 of those groups do believe in saints, do believe in the trinity, do believe in confession though not all of them confess believe in confession to a priest, and two of them have a Pope (or supreme patriarch, which is just father in another language, as is Pope).