Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as world's largest religion

[Хahar 🤔]

WTF?

Roman Catholicism is a religion?

[Хahar 🤔]

It's the Catholic Church. It has a very Eurocentric Weltanschauung. It analyzes Christian denominations as religions but not Muslim deominations because Christianity is "important" enough to justify it while Islam is not.

[Хahar 🤔]

Then explain to me why these denominations are analyzed as "single religions" for recording purposes.

You answered your own question - for recording purposes only.

Why refer to it as a religion then?

I consider my Catholic church to be a religion with it's own beliefs, leadership, etc. within the larger faith of Christianity. Just because I consider myself Catholic doesn't mean I don't consider myself part of the larger Christian faith.

So you are differentiating between two types of religion, which we can call the "greater religion" (Christianity), and the "lesser religion" (Catholicism). That makes sense, I guess. But shouldn't Islam be compared to the greater religion, rather than the lesser religion?

[Хahar 🤔]

Then explain to me why these denominations are analyzed as "single religions" for recording purposes.

You answered your own question - for recording purposes only.

Why refer to it as a religion then?

I consider my Catholic church to be a religion with it's own beliefs, leadership, etc. within the larger faith of Christianity. Just because I consider myself Catholic doesn't mean I don't consider myself part of the larger Christian faith.

So you are differentiating between two types of religion, which we can call the "greater religion" (Christianity), and the "lesser religion" (Catholicism). That makes sense, I guess. But shouldn't Islam be compared to the greater religion, rather than the lesser religion?

I really don't care what it is being compared to.

What? You seem to be comparing it to Islam, which is apples and oranges.