> All with different beliefs.

Different customs and perhaps some different interpretations, but if you believe something different (e.g. that deviates from or adds to scripture) then objectively you have a different basis and therefore a different faith.

I'd encourage you to watch some of the debates by James White[1] (yes, those are links to purchase, but if you check the podcast feed/blog they link to YouTube videos of many of the debates. What you'll clearly see in many of those debates is how the arguments of one side breaks down. I can't see how any reasonable observer could watch a handful of those debates and not be at least open to if not convinced that perhaps some of what these "different beliefs" offer isn't real Christianity, but something dressed up as such.

I do believe that there are very small number of _actual_ Christians in the US. Definitely not the 70-ish% from Pew[1]. Maybe 5-10%. Probably even less.

[1]: http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2011/01/19/available-d... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

I certainly would argue that my religion (Orthodox Christianity) is a different religion from that of Dr. James White (Baptist Christianity).

Anyhow, I don't care to argue specifics, only to point out that as everyone thinks their version is correct, and there's many versions out there, it's difficult to say what a 'real' Christian believes, assuming one is charitable enough to consider sects other than one's own as 'Christian'.

Which Orthodox? Eastern? Russian? A prominent one missing from your list is Roman Catholic.

Russian and 'Eastern' Orthodox are the same church... (well, 'Eastern Orthodox' is a term that encompasses all the Orthodox Churches, including the Russian one, but excluding the 'Monophysite' or 'Nestorian' churches, as well as a few random schismatics).

I wasn't trying to list types of Christians, merely pointing out that, to a typical American Christian, evangelicalism is synonymous with Christianity. I also missed the Lutherans, Anglicans, and a bunch of others.

Edit - should add, Orthodox consider any church 'in communion' with the rest to be the same church. So Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian Orthodox churches, as well as the Patriarchates of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople, as well as a bunch I'm missing and too lazy to Google, all consider each other to be the same church. Imagine the Catholic church but with a dozen or more 'Popes', all more or less equal (I say more or less because the larger churches often wield more influence, even if they don't officially have more authority).