American evangelicals don't make any distinctions, Dodge... to them Animism and Catholicism are both in league with 'Satan'. They think ANY religion that isn't their own is.
Floors me every time I hear them boast of being the 'TRUE' Christians. They're basing their entire worldview on a translation of a translation of an oral tradition. And they're notoriously selective about what morals and lessons they choose to abide by and what they choose to ignore.
As I've said many times, it's more a tribal phenomenon than a religious one. And in America, of course, it's all tied in with nationalism, too.
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