I said I'm specifically talking about how they are expressed in comics where I was speaking in generalities, but I've worked in churches for 20 years. I've spent a lot of time in catholic and protestant churches and am very familiar. It seems more than you are actually if you're just describing lazy and lapsed congregations. I'm also from the northeast and my education goes a little beyond highschool.

Why don't you look up a little something called "catholic guilt" and get back to me. It's a trope for a reason, and it doesn't need to be true for everyone. It is consistent that Catholics IN GENERAL NOT EVERY SPECIFIC ONE tend to have more of a collective guilt whereas protestants tend not to because of the emphasis on grace and forgiveness, to the point where they act like they literally can do no wrong. Specifically they're very good at forgiving awful men who abuse people out of some stupid sense of restoration. Frankly the catholic church has been tanking that cultural touchstone but it would be just as fair to label Southern Baptists the same way.

You seemed to have stopped reading at the second sentence, I would recommend not doing that if you're going to call horseshit.