(June 6, 2017 at 9:23 am)vorlon13 Wrote: As noted before, we're playing by Christer rules on the number of schisms. You need to disprove 35,000 individual schisms to get the total down by half.
And maybe I should note where the 70,000 comes from:
the 35,000 denominations that Drich acknowledges in his post, plus the 35,000 non-denominational/independents scattered about.
From Hartford Institute For Religion Research:
If the nation’s independent and nondenominational churches were combined into a single group they would represent the third largest cluster of religious adherents in the country, following the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention; second largest in the number of churches – following the Southern Baptist. Overall, this research found over 35,000 churches representing more than 12,200,000 adherents. In total, four percent of the US population worships in an independent or nondenominational church.
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