LOL, Quix! That was funny! It DOES seem to be an ongoing exercise in futility. It’s the ONE BILLION MAN DEFENSE that’s so hard to break through. Something that big SHIRLEY must be right!
Soooooooooooooo,
IF we Proddys applied our personal experience stats of the RC’s we know . . .
what percentage of all the self-labeled RC’s that we know in our interpersonal networks
are really earnestly practicing truly spiritual folks?
5%? 20%? 25%?
Let’s say it’s 25% . . . wouldn’t that mean that only about 300,000,000 were authentic Roman Catholics?
But there may be a huge flaw in those assumptions.
It SOUNDS LIKE . . . half or more of the 1.2 billion may well not even be actively claiming they are RC’s in any significant real sense. They may have never darkened a church door since infant baptism or some such.
25% of half of 1.2 billion would be . . .
59,9999,975
There must be a way to find some fairly decent and reliable stats about such things given all the religious and sociological research that goes on.
I wonder what
dogpiling
at dogpile.com
would turn up from
“CLAIMED ROMAN CATHOLIC BELIEVERS VS ACTUAL”
or some such search string.