Actually, I was a Geek Protestant, but most of the other kids were Roman Catholic. Some kids were afraid to stand near me, because the nuns told them that one day the Devil would suck me down to Hell and they might get slurped up too.
The Catholic kids would cross the street rather than walk on the sidewalk in front of a Protestant church. I could make them cry by threatening to drag them onto the stairs of our church. The Catholic kids were, in my opinion, the worst behaved and most immoral. Every week, they could confess and be forgiven! The Catholic girls' schools had, umm, reputations too.