With 25% of the electorate, it was the Catholics that elected Obama? What were the Protestants doing? Sitting at home on their thumbs? Protestant voters moved to the Democrats in 2008 over 2004 in about the same percentage as Catholics moved to the Democrats.
This is bad news for our country. For every one person who joins the RCC, four Roman Catholics leave the RCC. The RCC in this country is bleeding members. The membership statistics for RCs in this country remain flat because this exodus of Roman Catholics from the RCC is only offset by the huge influx of Hispanics.
Flat? The Catholic Church is growing. The Protestants are shrinking. In total numbers, as well as percentages. When do you, for instance, anticipate your telephone booth cult to be dropped in the dustbin of history due to lack of members? Your precious OPC is shrinking appreciably - and if all the members were gathered together, they wouldn't make a good crowd at a hockey game. Same as all the rest of Protestant USA.
And if the Catholics were such an enemy of American society, why are all of the Catholics (67%) and all of the Jews (33%) appointed to the US Supreme Court by Protestant Presidents with the result that there are no Protestants on the Supreme Court? Could it be that the current generation of Protestants are simply not up to the task?
Not so. While some mainstream Protestant churches are shrinking (the Episcopal Church, for example), nondenominational Protestant churches are the fastest-growing churches in the U.S. They're growing by leaps and bounds. (They're also experiencing huge growth in places like China.)
For some reason--because it's easier, maybe?--nondenominational churches are often left out of church statistics.
As Chuck Smith recommending abortion to someone who called the radio program he was on proves, the current generation of Protestants can't be counted on to have the same standards of right and wrong from one day to the next. After all, it doesn't really matter to them if they're wrong since quoting a single verse of Scripture makes their sins invisible just like their church and their church membership are invisible.
None of those who are working so hard to expand the invisible church want you to send them invisible money, though. While their morals may vary from day to day, their understanding of economics never waivers.