If someone publicly claims to be an adherent to a religion,

[Mc Mike]

6. This is a majority Protestant country, though not over 50% of the pop., I don't think.

But around here, in the US, Catholics are a minority. The church I just came from was extorted by a sub group of catholic power enforcers from Henry Frick, after he torched our city's cathedral, to build his Union Trust Bldg.

It's full of bizarre arcane symbology, and the Diocese, which would sell any piece of property, shut any church, for a buck, wouldn't sell this one to build the Penguin's new stadium.

Prods don't really see the Catholics as 'christian', and my first reaction when someone is going to go off openly about how 'christian' they are, is instant wariness, because the right wing fundy bircher repug ones are the ones that spring to mind, the second the person starts 'testifying.' I just get tired of hearing them talk about it, too. Personally, I don't try to proselytize other people. I pay attention to Kristi Winters and Kevin Logan, and they're rational skeptical humanist anti-nazis.

Here's a good one from PFAW's Right Wing watch, this week. IslamoCatholic conspiracy, from the dRumpfenfuhrer's bircher repug christian backers:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christian-radio-show-warns-of-satanic-merger-of-catholicism-and-islam/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rww&utm_campaign=bestof

I like Islamicists, just fine. But Catholics were always a bit beyond the pale in this country. One of the klan's big three enemies. Despite the fascist ones who the repugs felt were 'reasonable', so they could work with them, work on hating women, gays, minorities, other religions.