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...
It might make RC apologists feel better to deny the truth, but it doesn't change the truth.
More Evangelical Protestants than Roman Catholics in the U.S.
God is good.
Facts are stubborn things and statistical conclusions are confusing for those not trained in analytical techniques.
The Pew study is able to establish a snapshot view of Church affiliation and compare it to an earlier snapshot, nothing more. It was based upon a presumption of a single alpha 1 deflection point in which a person, once changed, remains changed. It ignores the life cycle changes that many Catholics undergo. I know many devout Catholics who, at points in their lives, strayed from the Church, either to agnosticism or other denominations, only to later return. Tis doesn't even include the so-called "Cardiac Catholics" or "Death Bed Catholics". I know of many, many more.
So, to repeat a request to a repeated claim, put up at least one other study confirming your position or admit you don't know what the heck you are talking about.
PRAISE GOD.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
You weren't really happy with Pew when they were doing their best to kill the Presidency of Bush, with their skewed figures, but now that they are once again showing that their main point of enmity is with the Catholic Church (the Protestant denomination come later), you quote them. Do you think that they get their antiCatholicism more right than their antiRepublicanism?