Muslims now outnumber Catholics. And we have been actively killing them for the last five years. What does that tell you about the religion?

Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.

Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.

"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.

He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.

The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.

You know Hillary Clinton stumbled upon a universal truth during her campaign.

When she was perceived as being a victim her supporters rallied around her, she made more money, and her poll numbers went up. People love the underdog.

You often see Christians talking about the "War on Christmas" or the "Persecution of Christianity" because they know that talk like that brings in support, and makes them seem less threatening and more welcoming. The Jewish community has benefited from this image for years (No I am not saying that the Jewish community has not suffered throughout history, because they have).

But it is hard for the Christians to compete with the kind of underdog status that Islam is enjoying right now. And what is even more damaging is the fact that it is clear to many people that the pain being visited upon Muslims is coming from Christians. America, after all, is a "Christian nation".

I think that we will continue to see the Islamic community grow and that will adversely affect the growth of Christianity, especially abroad.

You see the religious leaders have always known this was a battle for dominance, and it is now obvious that the Christians are losing.