The United States is over 50% Protestant. Twenty-six percent of the country is Evangelical Protestant while 24% is Roman Catholic.
Them’s the numbers. Read ‘em and whine.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0075.pdf
1) Catholics: 57,199,000
2) Baptists (does not make distinction for Southern Baptist etc.) : 36,148,000
OPC: Not even mentioned.
Them’s the numbers. Read ‘em and whine.
Yes, I've been looking over your flawed Pew study. I would like to offer City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 2001 Survey
The following 35 Christian denominations and their membership statistics were taken from the 2001 "American Religious Identification Survey" conducted by The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
In the 2001 survey, 50,281 American residential households were asked "What is your religion, if any?" without a suggested list of potential answers or prompts. People who identified themselves as "Christian" or "Protestant" in response to the question were then asked to further specify their particular denomination though some chose not to do so. This list of 35 denominations is a reflection of the range of those responses.
Catholic 38.80%
Baptist 25.80%
Lutheran 7.31%
Presbyterian 4.27%
Protestant 3.54%
Pentecostal/Charismatic 3.36%
Episcopalian/Anglican 2.63%
Mormon / Latter-Day Saints 2.13%
Churches of Christ 1.91%
Nondenominational 1.90%
Congregational/United Church of Christ 1.05%
Jehovah's Witness 1.02%
Assemblies of God 0.84%
Evangelical 0.79%
Church of God 0.72%
Seventh-Day Adventist 0.55%
Orthodox (Eastern) 0.49%
Holiness/Holy 0.43%
Church of the Nazarene 0.41%
Disciples of Christ 0.38%
Church of the Brethren 0.27%
Mennonite 0.26%
Reformed/Dutch Reform 0
.22% Apostolic/New Apostolic 0.19%
Quaker 0.17%
Christian Science 0.15%
Full Gospel 0.13%
Christian Reform 0.06%
Independent Christian Church 0.05%
Foursquare Gospel 0.05%
Fundamentalist 0.05%
Born Again 0.04%
Salvation Army 0.02%
Just as a reminder to the cynical, this survey was done blind by the CUNY; it asked the respondants to self-identify their religious affiliation - which removes any of the objections to organizations keeping non members on rolls - and this is what the numbers stack up to. The CUNY does not have the political bias that Pew does; I believe these numbers are far more accurate than anything that the antiCatholic chorus is warbling about.
Read 'em and whine while you're considering the accuracy of these numbers and the objective fact collecting and methodology of this study versus the flawed Pew study.