>>1054405 (You)
All these Catholics…and the world is still a stinking pile of shit
Appeal to Popularity is an example of a logical fallacy. A logical fallacy is using false logic to try to make a claim or argument. Appeal to popularity is making an argument that something is the right or correct thing to do because a lot of people agree with doing it. This type of fallacy is also called bandwagon.
> Post was in reply to an anon falsely referring to "the dwindling number of Catholics." WRONG!
Roman Catholic Church
Main article: Roman Catholicism by country
Church membership in 2007 was 1.147 billion people[53] (17% of the global population at the time), increasing from the 1950 figure of 437 million[54] and 654 million in 1970.[55][56] On 31 December 2008, membership was 1.166 billion, an increase of 11.54% over the same date in 2000,[57][57] and slightly greater than the rate of increase of the world population (10.77%). The increase was 33.02% in Africa,[57] but only 1.17% in Europe. It was 15.91% in Asia, 11.39% in Oceania, and 10.93% in Americas.[57] As a result, Catholics were 17.77% of the total population in Africa, 63.10% in Americas, 3.05% in Asia, 39.97% in Europe, 26.21% in Oceania, and 17.40% of the world population. Of the world's Catholics, the proportion living in Africa grew from 12.44% in 2000 to 14.84% in 2008, while those living in Europe fell from 26.81% to 24.31%.[58] Membership of the Catholic Church is attained through baptism,[59] and from 1983 to 2009, if someone formally left the Church, that fact was noted in the register of the person's baptism.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiles the Vatican's yearbook, said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that "For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us." He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population—a stable percentage—while Muslims were at 19.2 percent. "It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer," the monsignor said.[60] Muslims in 2010 represented as much as 23.4% of the total world population and this is expected to increase to 26.3% by 2030.[61]
BREED MOAR.