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>Is Christianity the dominant religion?
It's the dominant religion, but from what I can tell, it's mostly on the decline, with congregations largely consisting of the elderly, and the youth being general atheists or "spiritual but not religious" types.
>Ever been?
This is America. Of course christianity has always been historically big.
>Is it frowned upon to be openly Christian?
No, but among youth it can cause cringes, and among some youth, it is understood that holding christian beliefs is a valid point of criticism about someone.
>Are there certain denoms that are prevalent and are others discriminated because of that?
No single denom stands out here, although "bland mainlineism" seems to be the most prevalent. There are a few churches in town proper:
An ELCA lutheran church.
A presbyterian church
A hurdy-gurdy wtf blando non-denominational meme McChurch
A catholic church
An AME church that's literally smaller than the houses next to it.
In the residential parts of town, there are also 2 baptist churches of various quality.
Outside of town, in the surrounding cornfield no-mans land between our town and the next there's:
An LC-MS church
2 Baptist churches
Archetecturally, the 2 lutheran churches are the most impressive, which indicates to me that they were likely the most dominant historically. The ELCA has significant numbers at their modern services, but their traditional service, and their "ultra modern" services are under-attended. I know not about the health of the LC-MS.
The catholics and presbyterians tie for second in archetecture. The catholics seem to have a very healthy congregation in terms of size and regular attendance. As for the presbyterians, I do not know.
The AME church is in a historical, but utterly ramshackle 19th century chapel building, and is the least archetecturally impressive structure. Given that there are maybe 5 black people in town, I'd assume their congregation is the smallest.
The various baptist and non-denominational-but-probably-baptist-in-theology churches are exactly what one would expect from that denom: office-like modern buildings with McChurch fittings. Of their congregational health, I do not know, but of the ones I've seen on sunday, they look well off enough.
As for inter-denominational discrimination:
Publically, all of the regional churches work on ecumenical charity projects (for example, our city has an ecumenically run food bank).
Behind the scenes, though, there's obvious disagreement, mostly on issues related to liberal church forms vs. conservative church forms (the biggest conflict I've seen concerns ordination of women, with homo acceptance being a close second). Obviously, there's disagreements based on general theology too(pedobaptists vs. credobaptists; papists vs protestants, etc etc etc). It never really goes to the internet-rudeness level one finds here, though.
However, given that there is a mormon coven and a heresy hall of the jehovah's witlesses in town, interdenominational bickering can be muted by simply redirecting frustration to the abject heretics. Also, because the denoms are in basic equilibrium as far as attendance goes, you don't see much public arguing.
There are probably a few muslims and foreign religion adherants given that we have a few international firms in town, but they have no public facilities, nor should they, as our foreigners really don't have a permanent existence here, often being here only a year at a time for business purposes.
As for witchcraft and other heresies: I see no evidence of it publically, meaning it's either uncommon or our satanists are simply lazy, or quite literally occult.