Ang katotohanan sa pagtaas ng bilang ng mga katoliko sa Pilipinas

Totoo nga bang LUMALAKI ang bilang ng mga katoliko sa Pilipinas?

Sa paanong paraan?

Dahil ba marami silang napapaconvert galing sa ibang relihiyon?

Bibigyang linaw ito satin ayon na rin sa CBCP sa panayam kay Archbishop Oscar Cruz:

“More people are getting baptized now. Is this a sign of the growth of the Church? Not necessarily. It can be because the population is growing,” said Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz

source: inquirer.net

Hindi naman pala dahil sa mga nabanggit na dahilan sa itaas, bunga lang pala ito ng PAGTAAS NG POPULASYON NG PILIPINAS. Imaginin nyo nalang, halimbawa, kung 40 million ang bilang ng katoliko sa Pilipinas na nasa edad ng pag aasawa, kalahati babae kalahati lalaki (ibig sabihin 20 million couples), at nagkaanak ng dalawa ang bawat mag asawa, ibig sabihin 40 million ang mababautismuhang sanggol. Kaya 40 million (Catholic couples) + 40 million (babies) = 80 million.

Ang galing ng doktrinang INFANT BAPTISM ano?

Yung mga walang kamuang muang na sanggol nagiging katoliko agad in an instant, walang kahirap hirap ang simbahan.

At kung hindi nyo po alam, sa bawat nababautismuhang sanggol binibilang agad silang mga katoliko, at yun ang inilalabas na statistics ng simbahan kung saan pinagmamalaki nilang DUMADAMI ANG BILANG NG MGA KATOLIKO. Pero ang hindi alam ng marami, doon sa mga sanggol na katoliko pag laki non ay umaalis din at umaanib sa ibang relihiyon. Yun ang hindi nila BINIBILANG, ayon mismo sa arsobispo:

Cruz admitted that the Catholic Church didn’t monitor how many of its flock left the fold for other religious denominations. “We only monitor those that come in [but] to me, the increase in baptisms is a very good sign,” he said. 

source: inquirer.net

Huwag na rin tayong magtataka kung bakit laban ang simbahan sa paggamit ng contraception at sa RH BILL, pag nagkataon kasi kokonti ang magiging anak ng mga katoliko, kaya kokonti rin ang "PAGTAAS" ng populasyon ng katoliko sa bansa.

Eh ano ba talaga ang TUNAY na mga pangyayari ayon sa pag aaral ng SWS survey?

In his opinion column, “Public Lives,” sociologist Randy David in April highlighted three findings of a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) in February: 

“First, that weekly church attendance has significantly gone down from a high of 64 percent in July 1991 to a low of 37 percent in February 2013.  

Second, that only 29 percent of Filipino Catholics consider themselves “very religious,” compared to 50 percent of Protestants, 43 percent of Iglesia ni Cristo members, and 38 percent of Muslims. 

And finally, that 9.2 percent (one out of 11) “sometimes think of leaving the Church.”

source: inquirer.net

Kahit anong pagtatakip ng mga depensor katoliko sa KATOTOHANAN, sa huli ay mabibigo lang din sila, dahil yung pinagmamalaki nilang "PAGLAGO" diumano ng populasyon ng katoliko ay hindi pala dahil sa pag eefort nilang magmisyon kundi dahil sa mga sanggol na ipinapanganak ng kanilang mga magulang na katoliko.

Infant baptism is the key why there is a Catholic growth worlwide

Infant baptism is the main reason why, despite the fact that many leaves the Catholic Church, the church still experience growth worldwide. I think even i will not elaborate this, you will also realize that this invented doctrine, which is "Infant baptism", really affects the total population of Catholics.

I will cite some examples, let us see this table:

UN Ranking	Country	Fertility rate (2005–2010) (births/woman)[5]	Percent Christian
1	Vatican City		100.0%
2	Pitcairn Islands		100.0%
3	Ecuador	2.58	99.0%
4	East Timor	6.53	99.0%
5	Armenia	1.39	98.7%
6	Equatorial Guinea	5.36	98.6%
7	Moldova	1.40	98.3%
8	American Samoa	3.22	98.3%
9	Venezuela	2.55	98.0%
10	Greece	1.33	98.0%

The table above was the top 10 countries with highest percentage of Christians, fertility rate affects the growth of numbers of Christians. Just think about it, catholic couples may have 2 children or more, then the number of Catholics in their country will be doubled.

Here's another table:

Religion	Births	Conversions	New adherents per year	Growth rate
Christianity	22,708,799	2,501,396	25,210,195	1.36%
Islam	21,723,118	865,558	22,588,676	1.43%
Hinduism	13,194,111	−660,377	12,533,734	1.69%
Buddhism	3,530,918	156,609	3,687,527	1.09%
Sikhism	363,677	28,961	392,638	1.87%
Judaism	194,962	−70,447	124,515	0.91%
Bahá'í	117,158	26,333	143,491	2.28%
Confucianism	55,739	−11,434	44,305	0.73%
Jainism	74,539	−39,588	34,951	0.87%
Shinto	8,534	−40,527	-31,993	−1.09%
Taoism	25,397	−155	25,242	1.00%
Zoroastrianism	45,391	13,080	58,471	2.65%
Global population	78,860,791		78,860,791	1.41%

In Christianity, there is an over 25.2 million growth every year, composed of 2.5 million converts and the rest is because of birth rate. With the 2.2 billion Christians, 1.1 or half of its population belongs to the Catholic Church, so the growth of the Catholic Church relies on birth rate.

Last example, the Catholic statistics in Ireland:

"In 1990, just over 65,000 babies were baptised, but by 2006, (the most recent statistics available) this had risen to 67,191. Infant baptism remains by far the most common means of new members coming into the Church in Ireland,but Church statistics also show a growing number of people aged seven and older, coming forward for baptism.

In 1990, there were just 65 baptisms in this category. A decade later, the number had almost tripled to 178, and by 2006, that number had doubled again, to 360."

source: cinews.ie

There's really a great difference between infant baptism vs. adult baptism, and that's how powerful infant baptism was!