Does that mean that it holds a majority of Christians as its subjects? That it was founded by Christians? That it must hold only to what Christians say, ignoring Jews, Muslims, non-deists, pandeists, and all other non-Christians?
2013, Liz Ferguson, Twenty years of Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock! What do you think, Cumberbabes? , The Gazette (Montreal), 13 March 2013 (only used in title)
And (to the honor of the chriſtians of the præſent age, and of our own nation, be it ſpoken!) there never was a time, or place, where chriſtianity was the prævaleing religion, that ſuch perſons could have had more liberty to do their utmoſt, to overthrow the truth and genuineneſſe of the ſacred writeings;[…]The power of truth was great, and did prævale.[…]; but that, in all other caſes, where there was prævaleing evidence, the argument would hold, though not ſo ſtrongly: that rational chriſtians apprehend that there is prævaleing, and abundant, evidence, of the truth of chriſtianity;[…]But, ſuppoſe a man hath been educated, in a country, where the true religion prævales;