I think about religion in the same vein that I think about sports, so the metaphor works. Both have extreme blind loyalty that defies rationality.
So that explains why if you lived here you'd be more likely to go to a Catholic church than one where I know the lead pastor who has an anti-gay marriage ban bumper sticker on his car. Well that and the dislike of handraising.
I find that many Hispanic congregants hold hands during the Our Father and then raise them up together during the doxology: For thine is the kingdom... I'm with Harry, even this makes me uncomfortable. I prefer staid worship 
A lot of whites do that here too, but I don't join in. No interest in holding hands with a stranger.
