On one of my featured quizzes, the main conversation in the comments is that Cyprus is European, not Asian. And in my quiz I said it was Asian, and I just typed Cyprus as an answer and went "Man, am I a Hypocrite?"
Glad you brought that up WolfCam as the last couple of quizzes I've done have not mentioned Cyprus and I sort of miss not hearing peoples opinion on that. I get the same problem with Burma.
If you want to hear the whole argument try my Asian Island Nations quiz. The comments section (which you have contributed to) is particularly interesting.
On the Europe/Asia matter...I live in Germany, and in 2016, i saw that the Formula 1 "European Grand Prix" was being held in Azerbaijan. I asked college educated colleagues of mine "How's that possible?" The best answer i could get was that Azerbaijan "identifies as European". You can read articles where politically it wants to be Europe and it seems to be enough for it to be politically Europe to end up being geographically Europe. It's so much easier with all the other continents.
There aren't a ton of Catholics in Germany, either. But both the UK and Germany are listed due to their large populations. By percentage, the number of Catholics is fairly small.
You can look at church attendance figures... no doubt sources differ but I heard the other day that around 5% of the UK population regularly attend church. That's including all denominations of Christianity, so if that is true, then the figure in this quiz for Catholics alone seems staggeringly high.
I am french, and I am pretty sure those numbers are incorrect. There are not 50 millions of catholics out of 67 milions people in france. It would mean 75% of the population is catholic (which even the wikipedia page linked in the description of the quizz states a number around 50%). It is fairly rare in France to know a catholic person, I highly doubt it being above 20%.
It really depends on how the question is phrased in a survey or other criteria (if you're baptized, you're considered a Catholic by the church, no matter how atheist you are): "Estimates of the proportion of Catholics range between 41% and 88% of France's population, with the higher figure including lapsed Catholics and "Catholic atheists"."
Ukraine, as HendogJP said, is mainly Orthodox. Lithuania narrowly misses first column (number of Catholics should be around 75%) and is too small (2.8 million in total) to make it to the second one.
They both may be mainly Protestant but on this quiz it is by population, so less then a majority of both populations are catholic, but because of the massive population of both, it is still on here.
It's close, Germany used to be more protestant than catholic (as recently as 2001 for example) and Germany would be even more protestant right now if the gdr/sed didn't happen.
I think the data just uses citizens, not foreign residents, and unfortunately being Catholic (and working for the Catholic Church) is a literal requirement for citizenship of Vatican City.
I'm pretty sure if you ask literally any Christian regardless of denomination they'll be able to give you a long list of differences, objective or not... But it's a lot to do with the perceived importance of faith and scripture. One of Martin Luther's most famous interventions in Bible translation (which he vehemently denied, claiming it was a matter of grammar not theology) was saying that 'faith ALONE' was necessary to get into Heaven, which miffed Catholic authorities who had been telling people they needed to confess their sins and donate to the Church as well as believe. Catholics also believed until very recently that only Church authorities were able to interpret the Bible on behalf of the populace, so it shouldn't be translated into 'vernacular' languages.
To be honest I think the violence has historically been more due to the religion of whoever is in power, and their insistence on their religion being the ONLY religion. Catholics and Protestants are the most prominent pair of historical "enemies", but in countries ruled by both Catholics and Protestants, "dissenters" of any denomination have rarely been treated very well. It's more about simple difference and perceived disobedience than pernickety points of theology.
That's sad for me to hear. I knew things were declining - and there are many reasons I can empathize with for that - but to think that Catholic identity is being lost that rapidly is a bummer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_France
It looks like about half of the kids are still baptized, though way less make it to confirmation.
Something to do with the nature of transubstantiation - ie whether the bread in holy communion represents, or literally becomes, the flesh of Christ.
Theological nuance, definitely worth the deaths of millions of humans throughout history…
Gotta love religion eh?