if you like please share your experiences that illustrate you point of view. http://www.adherents.com/adh_branches.html#Christianity Major Denominational Families of Christianity (This table does not include all Christians. These numbers are estimates, and are here primarily to assist in ranking branches by size, not to provide a definitive count of membership.) Branch Number of Adherents 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
You seem to have a bias against Christianity. Here is a much more relevant poll: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=204857
actually, i would like to go through other religions as well in other polls. the idea is to isolate several branches in different religions that are considered intolerant and then run a separate poll comparing those. piling various Christian branches under Christian does not make sense since they are quite different from each other as far as i know.
When you mean intolerant do you mean... convert or die intolerance you can't live in this country unless you join us intolerance kill the infidel type intolerance preachers who preach killing and suicide bombing intolerance Or intolerance in which the preacher says that unless that person changes their ways they are not pleasing God. you can't have extra marital sex and be in a church intolerance you can't are supposed to drink, smoke or take stimulants intolerance you can't come to church topless intolerance you shouldn't come here drunk intolerance there are different degrees of intolerance what type of intolerance are you looking for.. and how would you grade it?
This is impossible to know without a comprehensive poll and survey. One Catholic church can be very strict and intolerant while another can be open and accepting.
""convert or die intolerance you can't live in this country unless you join us intolerance kill the infidel type intolerance intolerance preachers who preach killing and suicide bombing intolerance"" the 4 examples above are relevant because they force other people to change their ways. "Or intolerance in which the preacher says that unless that person changes their ways they are not pleasing God." - clearly not the same type of intensity. the poll is asking for the most intolerant so as long as one can grade the level of intolerance he should be able to chose one answer.