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More Evangelical Protestants than Roman Catholics in the U.S.

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?

Here's my two cents:
1. If you're Catholic or Orthodox or Oriental or Assyrian Church, you're in the One Apostolic Church and share the fullness of Christ and Christian teachings

2. If you're in the Traditional Anglican or Lutheran (LCMS types not ELCA gay liberals types), Methodists, some orthodox Assemblies of God type Pentecostal, orthodoxy proficient Baptists, Evangelicals like Pentecostals etc., your group has some of the grace of the Christian faith and I call you Christian brethern

3. If you're from the Seventh Day Adventists and the way-out hyper-Calvinist groups, I don't think you have much in common with the loving God of Christianity. This of course varies -- some groups are closer to orthodoxy, some are closer to lunacy

4. Other religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, are pretty wrong to very wrong. Islam in all it's forms (Sunni, Shia, Ismaili, Ibadi, Bora, etc.) is SATANIC. The Druze and Alawis I might club with Hindus as less demonic influence but Bahais and Ahmaddiyas are in the Islamic satan worshippers club.

If groups 2 or 3 go out to focus on converting practising Catholics, I wonder why they don't focus on group 4

HOWEVER, if there are the non-practising, CINOs like in France, and group 2 go out to convert them -- I WILL CHEER THEM ON, as I think it's better for the secularists or agnostics to find even a little Christ than none at all.

If group 3 go out to convert them, I don't think it's a good idea as they will not get much or any Christ and when they leave, they will hate Christianity

For preaching to group 4, the same, I'd rather group 1 or 2 convert them as the non-Christians will get some Christ.