I’m confused as to why “baptist” is a separate category. Which leads me to question not only how informative the “generic” and “mainline” labels are, but how informative the visualization (without all the noise) would be.

It would seem to me that if you were trying to facilitate the generation of wisdom about religious sects, then you would show “Christian” compared to Muslim, None, and Jewish – and then if the Christian graph was significantly larger than the others, you’d break that out in a separate display within which you’d show break down via sect.

Perhaps you’d even take the trouble to break out “None” into Atheist and Agnostic, as well.

Either way, it seems like the information is subservient to the visual “joke” – meant to hopefully offend at least two of the religions represented?