This Pawlenty fan boy would never in a trillion years vote for Kasich.
Pawlenty is still effectively Catholic and converted for his wife. Iirc, "Courage to Stand" spoke proudly about the mix of Catholics and Lutherans and the great heritages of Minnesotans.
Kasich is barely religious. Fyi, brtd - his wiki "There's always going to be a part of me that considers myself a Catholic"
Is that not what we've been saying all along. You're losing the argument by bringing this up.
I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of the 41% of raised Catholic Americans who no longer identify as such would NOT say something like that. Do you think any of the ex-Catholic hipster Christians I know do?
Sometimes I don't think you realize how unrepresentative your type of Christianity is.
Well you're an Episcopalian in Massachusetts, probably tons of ex-Catholics at your church then, do you think almost all or most would say something like that? (Serious question, I honestly don't know.)
'Almost all or most'? Maybe not. Enough that not saying so would not be a 'vast majority'? Definitely.
I'll concede that it's probably quite different among the I'm sure significantly greater numbers of former Catholics who've become evangelical as opposed to mainline. This is because evangelical Christianity sends every other religion or culture it touches down the memory hole as a point of pride.
Your comment reminds me of what so impressed me with the religious culture at
Chautauqua. It's mainline Protestant mostly. And it is all very much about secular politics, save the planet, income equality, racial equality, sexual preference equality, no more wars, peace on Earth. That was the topic sermon after sermon. That is what gives non-Evangelical Christianity meaning these days for many.
