lol. There's a world of difference between "changing denominations" and "dropping out."
OK, have it your way.
| Raised Catholic, now unaffiliated | 4% |
| Raised Catholic, now Protestant | 5% |
| Raised Protestant, now Unaffiliated | 7% |
| Raised Protestant, now different Protestant denomination | 15% |
| Raised unaffiliated, now affiliated | 4% |
| Other change in religious affiliation* | 9% |
| Not in the graphic, but buried in text -- part of that 9% above Raised other than Catholic, now Catholic |
2.6% |
From Executive Summary, page 1.
So we can look at 5% of Catholics switching to another denomination and 17.6% of Protestants switching to another denomination (15% to another Protestant denomination and 2.6% to being Catholic). Since they don't break down the "other change in affiliation", we could say most accurately that between 5% and 14% of Catholics switch to another denomination and that between 15% and 24% of Protestants switch to another denomination.
But either way, the way the story is being reported really doesn't reflect the data. Hopefully you can get past your blinding hatred of the Catholic Church to recognize that fact.