You heathens are continually confused. Christianity is not a religion, it is a personal relationship with God. There are a few critera that have to be meet in order to be a religion.
1. Rituals - you have to have some type of rituals. You ever heard anyone say that someone does something religiously? They don't mean they are praying, rather that they are doing it repeatedly and devoted. The Mary worshipers use those little beads to recite all their chants, so that makes them a religion.
2. Education - to belong to a religion, you have to have some body of knowledge about the organization. Catholic and muslims always have school where they learn their rituals and how to further insult the Holy Spirit. ATHIESTS are the worst at education because they call their temples "universities" and learn their darwin voodoo there.
3. Hats - Religions have hats. Catholics have those big funny pope hats. Muslims use diapers on their heads. Athiests have graduation caps. Jews have those bowl things.
4. Special foods - Catholics say they eat Jesus crackers. Muslims and Jews won't eat pigs. Atheists are vegatarians.
5. Secret clubs - Real christians allow anyone to have a personnal relation with christ. To join a religion, you have to go to class to learn rituals (see one and two), and once you are in, you think you're so cool that you look down on christians like a bunch of kooks! We'll see who has the last laugh. If we can't get revenge on you here on earth, we'll get it in the next life (well, vengence is mine says the LORD, but he'll be doing it for us).
Anyway, as you can see, Christians aren't a religion. Anybody can come to Jesus - you don't have to be educated or have a hat.