What exactly is wrong with Irish or Italians specifically converting to Protestantism?

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It usually represents a nasty turn towards elitist conservatism common among newly rich social climbers. Evangelical converts are more likely to be zealous authoritarians than cultural Catholics.

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It usually represents a nasty turn towards elitist conservatism common among newly rich social climbers. Evangelical converts are more likely to be zealous authoritarians than cultural Catholics.

People here get bent out of shape even if it's converting to a liberal mainline denomination though.

Oh yes, I forgot the path that leads them becoming UMC liberal wasps who also throw out their culture.

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Nothing specifically wrong with it.

It usually represents a nasty turn towards elitist conservatism common among newly rich social climbers. Evangelical converts are more likely to be zealous authoritarians than cultural Catholics.

I actually find the inverse to be truer. When I think of "nasty elitist conservative zealous authoritarian social climbers," Catholic converts are the first thing that spring to mind.

Yeah, "ambitious conservative writer converts to Catholicism" is a bit of a meme on the right at this point. I

Indeed there is much lamenting in segments of the religious right that Evangelicals are basically foot soldiers for a movement whose intelligentsia is mostly Catholic.

Know I was referring to those whose origins are from lower stratas of the working class or who come from those families, but middle class converts to catholicism is also common yeah