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Originally Posted by Maru

I guess we have a lot more to choose from in the States.. this poll doesn't look anything like the full menu of Christianity we have in the US

My least favorite denomation is prosperity gospel... Joel Osteen must have a really good dentist though... my paternal grandmother is Catholic and I feel like she and her sisters are actually practicing compared to my peers, are more connected as a community and I feel like the church here is less watered down than other denominations... many churches here now are aiming towards prosperity gospel and are Christianity Light... with exception to Baptist, which my family supposedly is rooted in and it is known to be fire & brimstone, Southernly, but strict... However, my grandmother had an abusive step-dad who was also a Pastor and did things to her and her sisters growing up. So unsurprisingly, we were never church-going growing up... I don't think it really affected her faith though.

As far as I understand it, most forms of Christianity that are not an Orthodox or part of Catholicism are technically Protestant - it's just that in the US especially there are a LOT of different varieties of that, and they can be very different from each other and totally different to "classic" Church-of-England style Protestantism. But yeah... they'd generally either be evolutions of classical Protestantism, and so still Protestant, or new offshoots from Catholicism which would make them "new Protestant".



I was christened Church of Scotland so I've voted Protestant in the poll -- but none are my "favourite" and I would never be a practicing Christian of any variety.