[redwoolf]

You're absolutely right. The thing is that in America, Catholicism isn't the cultural force that it is in other parts of the Americas or in Continental Europe. Protestantism is the brand of Christianity that fights the culture wars here. So for me "Christian" has become a shorthand for "Evangelical Christian." This is somewhat intellectually dishonest and definitely sloppy.

[moomin]

I can tell you that when I went to university the catholic chaplaincy maintained a library, and none of it was about how to prep a sermon for youth group.

There’s plenty to criticise about the Catholic Church, but it takes scholarship extremely seriously.