The people I know in the NHS are in rather remote areas, not too affected (the Shetlands and Highlands), so I don’t have any information beyond what’s in the news
Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States with its combined denominations collectively accounting for about 43% of the country's population or 141 million people in 2019. Simultaneously, this corresponds to around 20% of the world's total Protestant population. America has the largest number of Protestants of any country in the world. Baptists account for about one third of American Protestants. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest single Protestant denomination in the United States with one-tenth of American Protestants. Twelve out of the original Thirteen...
I have gradually realized the differences between different denominations or branches.
websites of some churches don't tell which denominations or branches they belong to
I found the categorization of evangelical and mainline is particularly helpful
I think the differences between denominations, between branches, or between mainline vs. evangelical are all small, if compared to atheists.
I am an atheist, or an ignorant of religion.
Do all of you have religions?
when talking to people of a branch and denomination, is it impolite to talk about other branches and denominations?
The wikipedia article says:
> The mainline or mainline Protestant Christian denominations are those Protestant denominations that were brought to the United States by its historic immigrant groups; for this reason they are sometimes referred to as heritage churches.[24] The largest are the Episcopal (English), Presbyterian (Scottish), Methodist (English and Welsh), and Lutheran (German and Scandinavian) churches.
I saw a methodist church's website says it was found by Swedish
> Episcopalians and Presbyterians tend to be considerably wealthier[31] and better educated than most other religious groups in Americans,[32] and are disproportionately represented in the upper reaches of American business,[33] law and politics, especially the Republican Party.[34] Numbers of the most wealthy and affluent American families as the Vanderbilts and Astors, Rockefeller, Du Pont, Roosevelt, Forbes, Whitneys, Morgans and Harrimans are Mainline Protestantism families.[31]
I saw a Presbyterian church chapel and a Catholic church chapel, both spectacular, stand on the exact opposite sides of a street. I was wondering if and how they communicate with each other