The USA would be so much better if Baptists/Pentecostals converted to Mainline denominations.
I'd rather they fix their own denominations. Reduction in this country's religious diversity doesn't strike me as beneficial.
Should be the other way around. For all my issues with the evangelicals, I can at least be reasonably certain they believe in the resurrection, which is more than I can say about my local mainlines.
Of course. The mainlines need to fix our own, mostly (but not entirely) separate problems too. A few years back Katherine Jefferts Schori delivered an Easter message that at no point mentioned Jesus. That's flat-out inexcusable.
That's better than Canada. The United Church won't even defrock atheists 
American mainline churches have completely different beliefs from town to town regardless of what their official belief statements are.
I know a ton of people who were raised in various mainline denominations to go off to college and find the church of their denomination there to have quite different views. For instance, the pastor of the PCUSA church where I went to undergrad wasn't really a monotheist.
