Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:
As a correction, the article says and implies nothing whatsoever about 'most Americans', and you cannot reasonably draw conclusions about the majority of 325 million Americans from it -- for the simple reason that it's about _evangelicals_. Who are a subculture.
People who identify as "evangelicals" are a very large subculture. Using the word "subculture" in this context seems misleading as it seems to imply that they are small and lack influence.
If you want to sound less like a crank, cite actual numbers. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_christian#cite_ref-How_Many_Evange... The United States has the largest concentration of evangelicals in the world. Based mostly in the Bible Belt, US evangelicals are a quarter of the nation's population and politically important.^[4] 25% of Americans is patently not "most Americans" (but nor is it insignificant). If you want to pick on a particular nation-state for being religious, all you gotta do is pull up this handy graph, and work your way up from the bottom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglehart%E2%80%93Welzel_cultural_map_of_the_w...