How Many Christians in the USA?
There is a lot of discussion about how many Christians there are in the United States. There are Evangelical Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Religious "nones", and others. Pew's research focuses on the data, rather than theories. In other words, they leave the interpretation to others. Evangelical Protestants Evangelical Protestants are Christian believers who take the Bible seriously and believe in Jesus Christ as the Savior. The term evangelical derives from the Greek word euangelion, meaning "good news." Their faith emphasizes the message of salvation that Jesus brings through the Bible. While the majority of Americans identify as evangelicals, some people identify as mainline Protestants. The Evangelical Protestant movement is widely considered to be socially conservative, especially in the Bible Belt (the area encompassing most of the Southern United States, including the Southern states that fought against the Union during the A...