But we were talking about the dominant strand of Christianity in the US. I'm not certain about that, e. The last time I saw the statistics, over a decade ago, the established churches dominated the numbers. Now those numbers might be broken down in that some of the congregations of established churches have tended rightward both politically and theologically. But I suspect not enough to change the numbers a great deal.
So my guess is that the dominant (largest numbers) are members of mainline congregations of Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, and so on. Moreover, some of the evangelicals, not certain again the numbers, are quite conservative theologically (fundamentalists on scriptural interpretation but very strong on environmental and climate change issues). So it's really a mixed bag.
It's just that the fundamentalist evangelicals who are conservative on both scores, theologically and politically, are getting all the media attention right now. Anger will do that given the focus of the media. |
