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Here's a question I don't know the answer to. Are there American-style evangelicals in other countries? By this I mean fundamentalist Protestants who claim to take the Bible literally & are obsessed with abortion & gays. My impression is that there are very few outside the US.
The reason why there are so many evangelicals in the US has to do with slavery. There are many Bible passages that defend slavery if you take it literally. Hence defenders of slavery adopted a literal approach to the Bible that has continued down to the present day.
I also have the impression that the bulk of Protestants in other countries belong to mainline churches and they don't have the atomization of religion that the US has, where anyone can start a church and preach whatever they feel like.
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