Religious Liberty: The Stats Must be Wrong

I know the Pew Research Center's report notes that the U. S. Christian population is 78%. That would be 243,360,000 people.I know 38% of the general population (That would be 118,560,000 people.) accept the label "Evangelical"--with Barna adding that 27% of those (That would be 32,011,200 people.) that do are not born again. So, 118,560,000 less Barna's 32,011,200 leaves 86,548,800 U. S. Evangelical Christians-- or 28% of the U. S. population.The numbers must be wrong.With all that is happening in the U. S. public square over religious liberty matters against Christians, how can there be 243,000,000 people in the United States who are Christians? How can 28% of the U. S. population be comprised of evangelicals? Religious liberty matters aside, what population that large would allow such treatment to their own?What if the voices standing against the way of Jesus numbered 243,000,000, or even 28% of the population? Would they remain silent and unresponsive to verbal abuse, threats, discrimination, and double standards by a minority group trying to take away public rights?Public actions have revealed the private beliefs of one of the world's largest "Christian" populations. And those public actions do not reveal a Kingdom Ethic lived by 78% or even 28% of the population.Maybe the U. S. is more of a mission field than we have believed it to be.———-Last week on Strike the Match, pastor and author, Jonathan Dodson was my guest. Check out our conversation and subscribe at iTunes or through RSS.