For example the total number of Protestants are 670 million. Only 75 million are of the "Reformed" flavor. That is just over 11% of Protestants. The Catholic Church is somewhere around 1.2 billion. If we compare the "Reformed" numbers to Catholics, it is around 6% the size in relation to Catholic numbers. If we add up all Protestants and Catholics together aside from the "Reformed" flavor, we arrive at the very insignificant number of just over 4% being "Reformed." Finally if we add in the 210 million Eastern Orthodox we arrive at the minuscule number of 3.5% of all professing Christians being of the "Reformed" flavor. This puts some of their core doctrines at odds with 96.5 % of all professing Christians in the world. Just some fun facts for you to ponder.
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Tons of reformed guys go to non reformed churches, so you have to figure for all the non reformed denoms, figure about 10% to be reformed and you get a new number that's still really small, but more accurate.
P.S. I don't think adding to the Us/Them fire by claiming they are all hateful is going to help much.
Its just not true.
I should have made myself clear. The majority of the "Reformed" folks that I have experienced are full of hate and discontent.
I don't believe there are 670 million Protestants in the world. I'd put the number more like 300 million.
It depends on what source you are using, I guess. I went by the Wiki stats. It is the world population, not US. What source did you use? If they are off by over 300 million, that is not good. But I checked Christianity Today and they put the numbers at 500 million.
Thinking about it, I guess 500 million might be true:
America: 250 million
Europe: 100 million
Asia+Africa: 100 million
That's 450 million easily.
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