[bsdpufferfish]

> jawns wrote of Catholicism, bsdpufferfish and throw__away7391 wrote of Christianity.

The claim that is addressing is that religion is the mean of popular belief. How does that account for the Catholic experience? Catholics are obviously a minority among American christians and have less political power.

> The latter, broader, category is the majority of the population across the USA.

Indeed. However they are not organized in any way. The percentage who has been to a church more than 3x in their life is probably significantly lower.