Christians First, Americans Second

Well, well. After all that guff about how muslims are more loyal to their religion than to their country, how about this from the Pew Research Center…

Among non-Muslim nations, the United States is the outlier in terms of religious self-identification. The 2006 Pew Global Attitudes poll finds American adults are closely split between those who see themselves as Christians first (42%) and those who see themselves as Americans first (48%); an additional 7% say they see themselves as both equally. By contrast, only a third of German Christians (33%), and fewer than a quarter of British, French and Spanish Christians self-identify primarily with their religion. In this regard, the views of Americans closely parallel those of French Muslims, 46% of whom think of themselves first in terms of their religion rather than their nationality…