Monday, 16 April 2012News From Porto-less Catholic and more Protestante.
Today I read an interesting article, I will give my opinion. As I said, it is my opinion.
I would appreciate your views
There are fewer Catholics in Portugal and increasingly Protestant / Evangelical and Jehovah's Witnesses, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Religions and Cultures of the Portuguese Catholic University."You can observe a relative decrease of the population declares itself Catholic and an increase in the percentage relative to other positions of religious affiliation with a particular emphasis on the Protestant universe (including evangelicals)," the report's interpretive "Survey 2011 "comparing 1999 data with another survey at the end of last year.The study, which aims to understand how the Portuguese are located to the religious phenomenon, reveals that over the past eleven years, Catholics decreased 7.4 percent (%), from 86.9 to 79.5% of the population %.Unlike the declining trend of Catholics has doubled the percentage of people with a different religion than the Catholic (2.7% in 1999 to 5.7%) and increased the number of people with no religion (8.2% for 14, 2%) felt that an increase in all categories: the indifferent increased from 1.7 to 3.2, the 1.7 to 2.2 agnostics and atheists from 2.7% to 4, 1%.Among the population believing in religion, the vast majority continues to be Catholic, but has reduced its weight: at the end of the last century represented almost the totality of believers at 97%, while this group now represents 93.3%.The survey shows an increase of Protestant / evangelical (which increased from 0.3% to 2.8%) and Jehovah's Witnesses, which in 1999 accounted for one percent and are now 1.5%. The "other Christians" also increased one tenth (1.5% to 1.6%) as well as those belonging to non-Christian religions (they were 0.2 and are now0.8%).
My view is:
Jesus is the church, not religion. Jesus hated and hates religion.
See the article below, which I agree with.
Jesus did not invent a religion
True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, because the Father is Spirit.
Jesus Christ.
There are people who believe that Christianity was instituted by Jesus Christ. Others claim it was the Apostle Paul. I believe that neither Jesus or any apostle, who conceived of the history of the West tried to Christianity. I believe that Jesus did not leave us a New Religion, consequential or alternative to Judaism, but that he ended up completely with all religions.
In Jesus there is no religion, nor Christianity, nor any other. There is only the Gospel as a message and life as an existential experience, conscience, perception and action. No religion, no dogma, no rituals, no worship, no priesthood, no temple, without any sacred objects, places, people, days, holidays.
What is the Gospel message is that as good news that God is reconciling the whole universe, which was affected by the chaos of human rebellion, through Jesus Christ, and that whosoever believeth in Him, and thus believes is transformed inwardly through the action of his Spirit, becoming like God in redemptive actions on earth, awaiting the time when everything will be fully redeemed for eternity.
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