Muslims Outnumber The World's Catholics

For the first time in history, there are more muslims in the world than there are Catholics. Now as ominous as that sounds, we best realize that if you combine all Christian groups, then Christians still outnumber muslims. But this is significant and to emphasize this, see this quote from the Vatican:

"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.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.

Now, as some of you know, I have a real problem with this kind of reporting since I do not view islam as a religion. But, since that is my view, that makes this even more significant due to the fact that we've seen close to 20 percent of the world now fall under this political ideology. Think about it... what would be the headline if 20 percent of the world were Nazis? If WW2 hadn't been fought and won by the Allies, this is how the world might have looked.

Here's the full story from AOL.

Muslims Outnumber World's Catholics

VATICAN CITY (March 30) - Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.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.Formenti said that the data refer to 2006.

The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.