On 6/3/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
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]
Hmm, I seem to recall having read at least twice that more than 50% of
the US population believes that the world was literally created in
seven days, around 6000 years ago. But I don't have a source.
I'm happy to let that one go.
Steve