Talk:Christianity

NOTHING about evangelicals???

How can an article on Christianity miss arguably some of the most controversial followers in all their variants? Evangelicals and evangelicalism have left their mark on the Western world, certainly the United States. Many of their number spend a tremendous anount of time on politically conservative causes including minority oppression and freedom of access to firearms. If there isn't an article on Evangelicals and evangelicalism to link to THIS one, I strongly recommend that either a major section on them be added here, or a completely NEW one should be added to Wikipedia. Evangelicals and evangelicalism have hurt many individuals in many ways and criticism of their number and schools of thought should be part and parcel of any discussion on Christianity, at least here on Wikipedia, for completeness. Wikigameshow (talk) 01:12, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

The article you're after is Evangelicalism. StAnselm (talk) 01:40, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Mythology category/template?

This article falls under the purview of WikiProject:Religion and its subset WikiProject:Christianity. There is no need to keep adding a Mythology portal and talk page template to prove a WP:POINT. I have deleted it (again) and await the comments of other editors. Durziil89 (talk) 14:43, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

"This article falls under the purview of WikiProject:Religion" So what? The two WkiProjects are not contradicting each other. Dimadick (talk) 18:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

But why only Christianity? Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Bahai, Buddhism, Shinto etc. don't have this Mythology project. They only have the Religion WikiProject. Durziil89 (talk) 19:03, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

If the articles of those religions aren't listed as being of interest to WikiProject Mythology, they should be. All of those religions have their own mythologies. — Toast for Teddy (talk) 20:11, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I agree that the Mythology project is not in scope here.NishantXavier (talk) 12:53, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

One-third, three-tenths, over three-tenths

Another editor updated the lead to state that 2.4bn is "three tenths" of the world's population; previously it read "one third". I updated to "over three tenths"; the best sources I can find peg Christianity at a consistent 31.2% to 31.4% of the world population (see for example https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/, which is cited herein). It is incorrect to peg the 2.3-2.4bn number (from 2015-20 sources) against the 2023 global population, but 31.4% is not one third. I think "almost one third" would be the best wording and least awkward. Thoughts? Jtrevor99 (talk) 02:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Counts of religious people are inevitably biased upwards, due such factors as parents claiming newborn children to be religious, and people who were once in a church still stating that on a census, when they haven't attended for years. Fractions in tenths seem unnatural to me. I propose "around 30%" for our article. HiLo48 (talk) 04:11, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

While reputable groups like Pew try to adjust for factors like those you describe, "around 30%" works for me. Jtrevor99 (talk) 16:06, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Languages

There has been a fair bit of editing to and fro regarding the languages field in the infobox, and it is much better if we discuss it here and gain a consensus. It should either refer to the languages of the original texts (in which case Latin should be removed) or official non-vernacular church languages (in which case Old Church Slavonic and others need to be included as well). StAnselm (talk) 17:40, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Wrong information

Jesus Christ wasn't founder of Christianity. Saint Paul was real founder of Christianity. 27.123.255.202 (talk) 10:44, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

"Who Founded Christianity? Some Say Jesus; Some Say Paul. What If Neither Did? The Answer Will Surprise You". Thinker78 (talk) 03:48, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

References

Christianity should be considered a polytheistic religion

Because they continue to say "trinity" this should make Christianity a polytheistic religion regardless of how many Christian propagandists like to spin it. The trinity is a repeat of what past polytheists believed in such as the Greek, Hindu and Egyptian trinity which Christians hypocritically describe as polytheistic. Elias Ziad (talk) 02:29, 6 February 2024 (UTC)