and yes Catholics are also chrsitians, think they are even the biggest group world wide.
but yes I understand what you mean
funny in Belgium 95% or so is Catholic and only 3% goes to church, most of us no longer believe but get baptised out of tradition (also lowering) and d their two communions (age 7 en 12) for the family and/or the gifts, but at the same time, when we reach high school and we can follow humanism, we take that instead of religion
myself an atheist (officially I'm still a catholic, damn baptism) am feeling right at home in the most atheist city in the world (90% atheists): wonderful and beautiful Prague, were crime is at an unusual low rate, ask any american who has lived here for a while (funny was talking about that in a bar last night with some americans
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religions are primarily a tool of control by those who are in power, when has religion ever brought peace? (buddhism btw isn't a real religion, more a way of life)