EDIT: adding my sources for these stats up here. (I posted a comment with them but it seems like a lot of people aren't seeing it.)
40% of American adults believe in young-earth creationism
77% of American adults believe angels are real - kind of an old source (2011) but I don't get the feeling that the number has dropped a whole lot since then
EDIT2: I found a more recent figure for belief in angels: 72% as of 2016. Thanks @T_Doug
Huh, I guess I was assuming "belive in angels" meant "believe in angels that go around intervening in human affairs." In that case it's probably not really that much of an obstacle.
Ahhh, yeah that's fair, that'd be bonkers. Given 96% believe in some kind of god, and the vast majority of those are gonna at least nominally subscribe to some kind of Abrahamic faith, probably Christianity, I'm actually kinda shocked by how low just 77% is.
I looked it up, in 2019 65% of Americans identified as Christian, but it's been steeply declining. So, it's about what I'd expect.
Huh, that's lower than I remembered. Interesting. I guess 77% does make more sense in light of that, yeah.
Weird that the number of angel believers would be higher than the percentage of chirstians. I assume Jews and Muslims (Islam has angels yes?) don't make up the difference. Like where do they think the angels come from?
77% is probably an older figure from when America was more religious
edit: wait, it says "A majority of non-Christians think angels exist" so I might be back to thinking the study fucked up or is being presented in a misleading way or something. Like, people took "angels" in a metaphorical sense or something.
Yeah, very strange.