Faith writes:
... in fully Catholic countries, from what I've read about these things, they are as alien as you can get from our ways of thinking.
In Canada, we have approximately 39% Catholics and 28% Protestants (
Wiki). The Monster Raving Loonie Protestants - the only ones that you would consider Christians - are a small minority of Protestants. There tend to be fewer differences between Catholics and most Protestants than there are between most Protestants and Monster Raving Loonie Protestants.
So yes, our thinking is pretty alien from yours.
"Come all of you cowboys and don't ever run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns"
-- Woody Guthrie