> jawns wrote of Catholicism, bsdpufferfish and throw__away7391 wrote of Christianity.
The claim that is addressing is that religion is the mean of popular belief. How does that account for the Catholic experience? Catholics are obviously a minority among American christians and have less political power.
> The latter, broader, category is the majority of the population across the USA.
Indeed. However they are not organized in any way. The percentage who has been to a church more than 3x in their life is probably significantly lower.
The claim that is addressing is that religion is the mean of popular belief. How does that account for the Catholic experience? Catholics are obviously a minority among American christians and have less political power.
> The latter, broader, category is the majority of the population across the USA.
Indeed. However they are not organized in any way. The percentage who has been to a church more than 3x in their life is probably significantly lower.