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Quote by: Jack  All the sects within Christianity are real to themselves. None are real to each other. None are real to non-believers. Check out the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
You're right, though. Because even Christians of one sect consider all those of other sects heathens, our numbers are actually larger than usually reported. Heathens should be considered a larger, more popular group than any other single Christian denomination.
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You've hit an interesting point. Within Christianity....it's easy to watch them fall into the MY WAY is better than YOUR way trap. Hence the Calvanists versus the Anti-Calvanists and things fo that nature. There is the WORD.....and yet there are so many interpretations with whole Christina religions based on those ideas.
For example there is a whole line of thought on religious atonement based on ONE verse in Revelations and the number of fallen angels....it's the LEADING thought on atonement for the last 1,000 years. It's also very EASY to interpret that verse along the lines of things that have already happened with the Kingdom of Nero. So it doesn't make any sense. And yet whole lines of thought that completely shape a religion can come out of things like this. Then it gets filtered down to Christians that don't even KNOW where this line of thought comes from. It's just taught to them. They don't realize some guy made it up a thousand years ago based on ONE line in the Bible.
It's not hard to see why I personally don't think a lot of Christians are very deep in their knowledge of what they believe.