On 6/3/06, Delirium delirium@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