First of all, the Vatican does not have a census office.
Secondly, ALL demographic sources agree that there are around 2.1 billion Christians in the world and that around 1.2 billion of them are Catholic.
Are you suggesting that all of these groups simply accept the word of the Catholic Church and don't use their own numbers?
How many people do you claim have left the Catholic Church? Because, if it's a signficant number and your hypothesis is correct then there are a lot less Christians in the world than we believe (this would be due to double counting).
Just out of curiousity, is there a reason that the OPC hasn't published how many members it has in several years? Has the membership (which was quite insignificant to start with) fallen that much?
According to Rome, my husband is among those "1.2 billion."
Do you claim some sort of special power by which you can know for a certainty what is in your husband's heart?
I've known a great many men who have lied to unreasonable and nagging wives for decades just to avoid a confrontation.
Then you should hang out with a better class of men, lest you become like them.
It was my husband who led me back to my faith and to the reformed perspective of Christianity, as is his Godly responsibility. I thank God for him every day.
In your post you assume the OPC keeps membership records but you deny that Rome does. lol. Rome cannot count correctly. We've been told on these many threads by Roman Catholics that "once a RC, always a RC." Rome does not remove the names of baptized members from its membership rolls.
If it did, that "1.2 billion" would deflate fast.
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