(BTW - I'd really like to hear from PastorDan and Ihlin on this).
Having read a number of the Diaries on the subject of more "Faith" language in our party, I've noted that the arguments are waaaay too simplistic. Like most things, everyone has lumped the latest fad, "Evangelicals", into a generic for all categories. It doesn't work that way, and without being careful you'll end up alienating part of the "faith" community by pandering to evangelicals.
Having been raised a Roman Catholic (albeit I'm now Agnostic) of Eastern European decent (the bulk of US Roman Catholics), I can tell you that the majority of Catholics share the "flinty New Englander" attitude. My very Catholic Mom and Grandmother used terms like "holy roller" or "Elmer Gantry" in a very disparaging way about anyone, including few other Catholics, that wore their faith on their sleeve. Most Catholics find public displays of religion to be rude and unseemly...and common to hypocrites.
Opus Dei? Forget about it. In the immortal words of a Jesuit I knew, "Why don't those jerks just become Protestants, instead of being wannabes?".
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