[WikiEN-l] cancelation of the deletion review of the satanism userbox

Sat Jun 3 21:11:13 UTC 2006

Lord Voldemort wrote:
> On 6/3/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The majority of Americans are fundamentalist christians.
>>     
>
> Wondering if you have any stats for this. I'm skeptical.
>   

I'm not too sure what this has to do with Wikipedia, but no, the 
majority of Americans are not fundamentlist Christians.  While 77% of 
Americans do identify as Christian, most are not particularly ardent 
Christians.  When asked whether they would consider themselves 
"religious", "somewhat religious", "somewhat secular", or "secular", 
only 37% of Americans said "religious".  Had there been a further 
category of "extremely religious", presumably even fewer would've chosen it.

Source: 2001 American Religious Identification Survey, Columbia 
University 
[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris/key_findings.htm]

-Mark