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.
Bookmarking this. I've had past misgivings about Pew polling data.
The Pew study I cited was from 2008. Yours is from 2001.
You lose.
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Evangelicals-take-top-spot
"Evangelical Protestants outnumber Catholics by 26.3 percent (59 million) to 24 percent (54 million) of the population, according to the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, a massive 45-question poll conducted last summer of more than 35,000 American adults."
59 million Evangelical Christians in the U.S.
54 Roman Catholics in the U.S.
The U.S. is over 50% Protestant and 24% Roman Catholic.
Keep arguing the obvious. It won't be the first time.