Editing Garland, Texas (section)

=== Religion ===
The majority of Garland's local population are affiliated with a religion,<ref>{{cite web|title=Religion in Garland, Texas|url=https://www.bestplaces.net/religion/city/texas/garland|access-date=October 28, 2020|website=[[Sperling's BestPlaces]]}}</ref> being part of the largest Christian-dominated metropolitan area in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|date=2015-07-29|title=Dallas Has the Most Christians|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2015/07/dallas-has-the-most-christians/|access-date=2020-10-29|website=D Magazine|language=en}}</ref> As of 2020, the [[Catholic Church]] is the largest single Christian denomination in the city and wider [[Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex|Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington]] metropolitan statistical area. Garland's Catholic population is served by the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas]], one of the largest jurisdictions of the [[Catholic Church in the United States]].

Following, [[Baptists]] were the second-largest Christian denomination, and the largest Protestant group in the city limits. Baptists are traditionally divided among the [[Southern Baptist Convention]],<ref>{{cite web|title=SBC Churches Directory|url=https://churches.sbc.net/|access-date=2020-10-29|website=[[Southern Baptist Convention]]|language=en-US}}</ref> National Baptists ([[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|USA]] and [[National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc.|America]]) and [[Baptist General Convention of Texas|Texas Baptists]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Texas Baptists - Churches|url=https://texasbaptists.org/churches/|access-date=2020-10-29|website=[[Texas Baptists]]|language=en}}</ref> The third largest Christian denomination in the city of Garland are [[Methodism|Methodists]]. Other prominent Christian denominations were the [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], [[Pentecostalism]], [[Lutheranism]], [[Presbyterianism]], and [[Anglicanism|Episcopalianism]]. An estimated 12.2% of the total religious population professed another Christian faith. The largest non-Christian religion according to [[Sperling's BestPlaces]] was [[Islam]], followed by [[Judaism]] and the [[eastern religions]] including [[Buddhism]], [[Sikhism]], and [[Hinduism]].

In 1997, the Taiwanese [[UFO religion]] [[Chen Tao (UFO religion)|Chen Tao]] moved many of its members to Garland, where they believed the [[Second Coming|Second Coming of Jesus Christ]] would occur.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kliever |first=Lonnie D. |date=1999 |title=Meeting God in Garland: A Model of Religious Tolerance |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.45 |journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=45–53 |doi=10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.45 |jstor=10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.45 |issn=1092-6690}}</ref>