00:00Who are evangelicals? Some say that evangelical is just a political term, while others say that
00:05it does have a theological definition. Pew Research has its own way of defining evangelicals based on
00:10differences between evangelical, mainline, and black denominations. It's also based on how people
00:15self-identify in surveys. Here are some facts about evangelicals in America. There are about
00:1978 million evangelicals in America. Most of them are white, republican, and say that religion is
00:25very important to them, but not all. According to a new Pew Research study, evangelicals in
00:29America are actually pretty diverse. 28% are not white. 24% are democrat or lean democrat. And
00:35actually, only half of American evangelicals attend church on a weekly basis. More than a quarter of
00:41these evangelicals told Pew that they seldom or never read their bible. But wait, are those people
00:45then still evangelical? That's been debated a lot. But whether or not you agree with how this Pew
00:49research study defines evangelical, their report shows that evangelical can mean a lot of different
00:54things and can be defined in a lot of different ways.
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