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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
While there is a lot of truth to what you are saying, there is way more to it. Those that designate themselves as Christians take in a wide number of denominations. Take Martin Luther who comes from your own Germany. Martin Luther was the man behind the Protestant reformation and of the Lutheran Church. Martin Luther was a Christian as well. Of course, Martin Luther ran afoul of the powers that be for being against receiving dispensations in exchange for monetary payments to the pope or other religious authorities for their inequities.
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I'm aware that there are other Christian churches besides the two I mentioned.
The two dominant Christian churches in Germany are the Catholic (about 21.6 million followers in Germany, most of them in the south) and the Lutheran (about 19.7 million, most of them in the north). Orthodox churches make up about 1.5 million (all churches combined), all other Chrisian churches combined have no more than 900,000 followers, of which about 350,000 are members of the New Apostolic Church and about 160,000 are Jehova's witnesses.
Of the three you mentioned only the baptists have a sizeable following over here (about 80,000, less than 0.1% of the entire population).
(Disclaimer: all these numbers are from 2021).
To put these numbers into perspective: since 2013 the Catholic and the Lutheran churches have lost a combined 350,000 members every year - more than any other single Christian denomination's total number of followers.