White Christians protect their religion’s purity far more than they concede Muslims’

Evidence

When people claim to be Christian and commit acts of violence in the name of Christianity, do you believe they really are Christian, or not?” Overall, 75 percent of Americans answered “no,” they did not believe such perpetrators were authentically Christian. Not surprisingly, high numbers of white Christians also rejected the possibility of real Christians committing violence, including 87 percent of white evangelical Protestants, 77 percent of white mainline Protestants, and 75 percent of white Catholics. … When respondents were asked an identical question about self-proclaimed Muslims committing violence in the name of Islam, only 50 percent of Americans said they did not think such perpetrators were authentically Muslim. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 229

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White evangelicals held more negative views of Muslims than any other demographic — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 511

Broader Connections

• White evangelicals held more negative views of Muslims than any other demographic #corroborates (0.85) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 511