Can you name the major denominational families of Christianity?

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Christian Denominations Quiz

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Created Aug 25, 2009 in Religion
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	mark_oh:	Aug 25th, 2009 at 23:47 GMT	32 points
	harder than I thought.

	smreidy113:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:23 GMT	17 points
	Wow, there are still quakers? nice.

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	Milk_and_Cheese:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:29 GMT	18 points
	Didn't give me 'mormon' until I spelled it incorrectly as 'morman'. Boo!

	callheralaska:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:31 GMT	18 points
	@Rabbit: I was going to ask why "Mormon" wasn't allowed for LDS, but now I see . . . Also, I didn't know Episcopalians were Anglican. This is why I love Sporcle, I'm always learning new things!

	HPZ:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:31 GMT	16 points
	Should accept "Quaker" for "Quakers."

	mfuller:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:32 GMT	20 points
	@ dodge isn't the Emerging/ Emergent Church just the name for non-denominational churches with a liberal theology?

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	HPZ:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:43 GMT	8 points
	Another good one! I hope we can look forward to similar quizzes for other major religions.

	shel99:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:49 GMT	22 points
	Pardon an ignorant Jewish girl for asking, but what about Unitarianism? Is that not considered Christian?

	Moo:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 03:56 GMT	24 points
	My god are there really that many jehovah's witnesses

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:09 GMT	60 points
	@Moo: Yes, and it seems they're all knocking on my door.

	CharlieBrown:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:11 GMT	43 points
	What would be the major denominations of sporclism? US-Centrists? The avatarless?

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:11 GMT	11 points
	@Admin: Two other points. Should you accept Church of England for the one at 73 million? And while you are using a specific source, I believe there are over 300,000 members of the Salvation Army.

	Justin_S:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:13 GMT	25 points
	Holy smokes, one in every 6 or 7 people in the world is Catholic! That's a lot of people.

	JohnJF:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:17 GMT	11 points
	Is United Church of Christ lumped in with Stone-Campbell? Seeing as I was baptized UCC, I should probably know, but does anyone have clear and concrete knowledge on the subject?

	plutogirlgenius:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	13 points
	I kept typing "Greek Orthodox" over and over again. Am I just wrong in my phrasing or should it accept it. Maybe accept Roman Catholic too

	Doctor_Tom:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:21 GMT	14 points
	Greek Orthodox falls under the category of Orthodox.

	SporcleAdmin:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:22 GMT	16 points
	@rockgolf - we can consider adding the Church of England, but it isn't really a denomination it is a church of the one listed, as for the salvation navy, we are sticking with the source, but you can lobby Adherents.com to add it, however then they would have to add the salvation navy, the salvation marines, and so on...[jokes]

	fm_:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:23 GMT	7 points
	After checking the source, I'm a bit disappointed that my attempts at "Christian Scientist(s)" were denied since I didn't type "Christian Science." But then against I forgot about the Baptists and the Methodists, so what do I know?

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	lukejameslarson:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT	28 points
	seventh day adventist should trigger adventist as an answer.

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT	2 points
	@Dr Tom: They believe that Jesus was the Christ (i.e. divine Son Of God), so by definition are Christian. They have other beliefs that distinguish them, such as Jesus appearing in the New World. But that is only a matter of degree of difference when compared to tenets specific to other denominations.

	chikka2:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	2 points
	The United Church of Canada alone had about 700,000 members in 1998. Perhaps Adherents.com has discovered a slight loss of 400,000 since then to warrant not mentioning it?

	tnzack:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	2 points
	@ Doctor_Tom: I'm tired of people calling them non-Christians. I have a lot of Mormon friends, and they believe in Christ. Shouldn't that be the one and only definition of a "Christian?"

	jrose:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:31 GMT	0 points
	@ doctor_Tom While Mormonism may not be close to the base Christian faith, it's still considered a derivative. They're referencing the roots here, not the similarity in practice. At the end i just kept typing in dumb... I wasn't baptized a happy catholic ;)

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:33 GMT	5 points
	@Sporcleadmin: Assuming all the options listed for the 75 million answer are acceptable, then they should all appear when any of them is entered. It would be a pity if someone entered a different option then spent the next 5 minutes trying to spell Presbyterian. Similarly, the examples cited against the top 1.5 million answer should all appear when any option is entered.

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	4 points
	@chikka2: Check the referenced page. "United" is clumped in with another answer.

	nearlyextinct:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	5 points
	Great quiz! Next you can do other religions major denominations.

	steeltown:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	6 points
	@shel99-- Unitarians & or Universalists are not considered to be Christian by some because they don't believe in the Trinity (Father, Son & Holy Spirit). My favorite explanation is from the old Eric Idle movie "Nuns on the Run," where Idle, a criminal disguised as a nun, tried to explain the Trinity to a class of high school girls. After a few comments like "It's never easy to bethe son of a successful father," he gives up & tries his Irish Catholic partners version of "God is like shamrock" adding "He's little, green, and split three ways."

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	nwtider:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	5 points
	@ JohnJF: The UCOC should not be lumped in with ARM (American Restoration Movement) churches, erroneously identified as Stone-Campbell here. The UCOC traces its roots to the Congegationalist churches in the colonial era.

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	IHateRegistering:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	7 points
	So what exactly did Jehovah's Witnesses see?

	IHateRegistering:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	1 point
	I also feel retarded because I typed in Mena Knight rather than Mennonite

	jimpoz:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	30 points
	Should accept "Coptic" also

	dsee:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	6 points
	I sadly had to cheat and look up how to spell Presbyterian

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	superpole2000:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	15 points
	#3 is a really hard one to get, even if you know the category well.

	The:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 04:56 GMT	15 points
	MovieDynamic, most non-Catholic branches of Christianity are Protestant. Everyone was Catholic back in the day, until Martin Luther went and nailed a piece of paper to a door, causing a massive split, and hence, 500 years later, this quiz.