By Ryan Burge
I must admit something: I have no idea how the average American thinks about religion and politics. That’s just a blind spot that academics have, I guess. We spend almost every waking moment thinking about these topics, while many other folks don’t think about them at all. It’s a strange reality to wrap my head around. So my goal in doing all this writing is to give the average person a kind of mental scaffolding to better understand the subject I study most. Hopefully, that framework will help them sort and classify new information when it comes.
So, with that preamble, here’s a true, simple, and profound fact.
