As the Washington Times reported...
Evangelical Christianity has become the largest religious tradition in this country, supplanting Roman Catholicism, which is slowly bleeding members, according to a survey released yesterday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
As we can see from our exchanges, RC apologists try to finagle the language to say what it doesn't say. There are many denominations within the Catholic church, but RC apologists gloss over this uncomfortable fact.
Bottom line -- the RCC and its various denominations are receding while Protestant denominations are increasing.
As God wills.
Go ahead, keep on pretending that “Protestant” and “Evangelical” are denominations.
When I was in the service (Korean War) our dog tags had religous afilliation stamped on them, P=Protestant, C=Catholic, (I have no idea how the others were identified.)
This identification was primarily to allow the "proper" Chaplain to serve the GI if circumstances allowed. In extreme circumstances any Chaplain, any faith, would assist the wounded.
The P Chaplain did not ask a wounded serviceman if he was Baptist, Methodist, or whatever. He was simply a P, a C, or something else.
IMO this preoccupation with "denomination" is a red herring. There are more than twice as many P's in the United States than C's.