Christianity
religion
| Christianity link () | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jesus Christ |
| Membership | Anglicanism, Baptist, Church of Scotland, Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Congregationalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Episcopal Church, Evangelicalism, Greek Orthodox, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodism, Mormonism, Pentecostal, Presbyterianism, Quakers, Roman Catholicism, Russian Orthodox, Southern Baptist, Ukrainian Orthodox, Unitarian Universalist, Unitarianism, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church |
| World's largest and most widespread religion with over 2.3 billion followers | |
Christianity is a belief system which dictates cultural attitudes and behaviours for Christians who adhere to the religious denominations of both Catholicism and Protestantism.
Assuring immortality
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“[P]rimitive Christianity is a real threat to both commercialism and communism, at least when it takes its own message seriously. Primitive Christianity is one of the few ideologies that has kept alive the idea of the invisible dimension of nature and the priority of this dimension for assuring immortality.”
Ernest Becker (1976) [1]
Promising social justice
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Ernest Becker (1976) [2]
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