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This list of countries whose territories and peoples are constituent parts of United European Christendom is intended to be factual, not judgmental. It represents which territories are part of European Christendom, not which territories should be. It is not coextensive with the Church. The Church is universal and eternal. United European Christendom may occupy 48 percent of the land surface of Earth. It may encompass a population of approximately 1,200,000,000 people, who produced a GDP of 40,238,403,000,000 US$ in the 2012 twelve-month (approximately 56 percent of the World's total). It may endure as a civilization for 50,000 years, or indeed for less than that number of days. At all events United European Christendom will be neither universal nor eternal. By the Grace of God, European Christendom is not even coterminous with Christendom. Lots of people from other civilizations are Christian, and maybe better Christians — and closer to God — than many other people within European Christendom. Those countries included on the list are those whose populations (i) historically have been, by a clear majority, both ethnically European and Christian — Christian through baptism and by conviction and self identification — and (ii) which presently are populated, again by a clear majority, by the Descendants of European Christendom. Much has been and will be said and written about the words and concepts in the preceding sentence. Some discussion and, hopefully, some insights will also be included in the film, United European Christendom — Heal the Schism Now, but the film is mostly about the re-unification of the Church. |
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