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To: Tax-chick

Yeah you’re ‘probly right. Some teensy countries with tiny populations are perhaps the best bet. I wonder if you only need one church and a priest to be considered a country’s Roman Catholic “denomination”? Would a few nuns or brothers count? What if there is a Catholic but no priest? I wonder if that would be considered a “denomination”...

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13 posted on 01/20/2008 5:38:00 PM PST by Ransomed (Son of Ransomed says Keep the Faith!)
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To: Ransomed

I checked the source I’d read that suggested my earlier post, and I would pick Maldives and Bhutan. These countries seem to allow absolutely no Christian residents at all. Citizens who convert from Islam and Buddhism, respectively, are expelled.


14 posted on 01/20/2008 6:11:00 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Gently alluding to the indisputably obvious is not gloating." ~Richard John Neuhaus)
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To: Ransomed

“Denomination” is a term that appeared in the United States during the first half of the 19th Century when theological distinctions were more or less abandoned by the evangelicals.


17 posted on 01/20/2008 7:32:08 PM PST by RobbyS
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