Talk:Christianity in the United States

message: I consider it inappropriate to lump the LCMS in with Evangelicals.  Many throughout the LCMS, especially in the seminaries and institutions of theological education, constantly rail against "Evangelical Christianity," and go to great lengths to define how the LCMS differs from it.  For example, this article itself defines "Evangelical" denominations as those that emphasize "personal conversion" and gospel-related action.  Although the LCMS does have conservative theology, and does believe in the inerrancy and inspiration of scripture, as an Old Lutheran denomination, the LCMS most emphatically denies "personal conversion," synergism, "choosing Jesus," "making a decision for Christ," "feeling the presence of God," or anything other than Lutheran single predestination.  Furthermore, the LCMS can't really be accused of emphasizing that anyone do very much of anything, gospel-related or otherwise.  Even though such goading toward "right doing" may be enshrined in the theology, it is absent from the practice.  72.8.255.85 (talk) 23:16, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably right. I think it comes from the desire to categorize all Protestants as either "mainline" or "Evangelical", which isn't really accurate. Angr (talk) 06:39, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod

message: Data from  may be extracted and redone as a free license graph to be added here (and to articles about irreligion in the US). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:46, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like straight copyright infringement to me. How would it be a free license? tahc chat 21:55, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Data for useful graph 

message: Someone needs to edit the image so that the key is available on the Wikipedia page. It took me several clicks to find out what those colors were supposed to mean. I'm not familar with how to do it, or I may do it myself. If someone has a good refernce I'm will to give it a shot Fulner (talk) 15:35, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re:Demographics by state 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article names the UMC as third largest church in the US. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Methodist_Church there are 6,671,825 adherents of the UMC in the US. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_statistics_(United_States) there are 6,721,032 adherents of the LDS faith. Considering LDS church growth and UMC membership trends(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Methodist_Church#Membership_trends) it seems proper to replace UMC with LDS as third largest denomination. Any opposed? Shai-Huludim (talk) 12:27, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have Reliable Sources (not Wikipedia) for your numbers? Editor2020 (talk) 21:56, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. Editor2020 (talk) 02:49, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

text: You won't be able to edit the references where they appear in the reference section, but can edit them in the article itself, where they appear after the thing they are referencing. Editor2020 (talk) 23:42, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

text: If the National Baptist Convention USA  estimate were considered unreliable then it should not be listed-- but if it is considered reliable then we should not claim that these three other denominations are 3rd, 4th, 5th, and largest black, etc. tahc chat 19:58, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

text: If you think the World Council of Churches site is a more suitable source you can update the data on that section for the NBC, and see if anyone objects. tahc chat 06:22, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The third largest church (christian denomination) 

message: So after more than a month of me announcing to make a change user "Tahc" deletes my changes minutes after I'm done. Serious? Justification for the change being an "estimated" number? So estimates are now legit reasons for wikipedia entries? Maybe a mod should take a good look on this. Shai-Huludim (talk) 18:38, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: If the National Baptist Convention USA  estimate were considered unreliable then it should not be listed-- but if it is considered reliable then we should not claim that these three other denominations are 3rd, 4th, 5th, and largest black, etc. tahc chat 19:58, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

text: If you think the World Council of Churches site is a more suitable source you can update the data on that section for the NBC, and see if anyone objects. tahc chat 06:22, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: National Baptist Convention USA 

message: The first sentence of this article references a 2014 survey and then compares it backwardly to a 2015 survey.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.254.169.145 (talk) 01:30, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates are out of order in the first sentence of the article. 

message: Should there be a new chapter here on "Christian nationalism" where we mention a growing number of conservative American christians are trying to change their country into adopting their religious laws like "abortion criminalisation" and suceeding in states like Texas? While also those americans who strongly embrace Christian nationalism— about 30 million adult or 20 percent of white americans, want to enact voter supression on ethnic minority communties and many tend to support Trump?  https://time.com/6052051/anti-democratic-threat-christian-nationalism/ Unicornblood2018 (talk) 09:21, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  White Christian Nationalism 

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thread_title:  "Celtic Orthodox Church in the United States" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Christian church directory of the United States and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 19:58, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Christian church directory of the United States" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Sorry the numbers of christian do NOT add up.  Are you suggesting that Orthodox and others (outside of Catholics and Protestants) do not count?   Also what is protestant and what is not?   is that even defined? JOCA (talk) 19:13, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @JOCA Lots of numbers in the article, can you be more specific about which ones don't add up. Erp (talk) 23:52, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate statistics categorization