Christians: "We don't care about your silly pronouns; they're too confusing!"
Also Christians:
Catholicism: Ornateness. Innately dual (populist/elitist, radical/reactionary). Default form of Christianity in my life experience. An uneasy chasm between its overwhelming influence on this country and a sense of great absence of observant Catholics in my (non-online) social ties.
Orthodoxy: Icons. Romanian immigrants.
Anglicanism/Episcopalianism: Americans who would be Catholic if not for scary mean theology of sexuality. Saint Paul's Within the Walls.
Lutheranism: Germans and Scandinavians. Very low rates of church attendance.
Calvinism: Dourness and austerity. People in the Dutch countryside unhappy about living in the same nation as De Wallen.
Anabaptism: The brutal repression of the Great Peasants' Revolt and Thomas Müntzer. Insular communities skeptical of technology.
Congregationalism: Small churches in rural New England which are probably now unused.
Methodism: Wales. West Virginia. Coal miners, I assume. Also loads of hymns.
Pentecostalism: Speaking in tongues. Weird worship structure and practices. Latin American immigrants converted from Catholicism.
Adventism: Annihilationism. Vegetarianism. Observing the Sabbath.
Baptists: Megachurches in the American South. The English pastor and locally active missionary Edward Clarke.
Quakers: The Publick Universal Friend. Oatmeal.
Waldensians: Piedmont valleys with a strong progressive tradition.
Moravians: A certain user of this forum who likes 17th-century England a bit too much.
Latter-Day Saints: Nice missionaries from Utah who have learned Italian remarkably well and give out pamphlets.
