The Emperor had once discussed the distribution of religious belief with Master Hamir. Even in the United States, founded by Puritans, religious beliefs differed between cities and the countryside. On the surface, there was the Catholic Church, which followed the doctrines of the Roman Church; the Orthodox Church, embraced by Eastern European immigrants; and mainstream Protestant denominations with Calvinist and Baptist roots—because of Protestantism's distinctive principles, Evangelical sects with Methodist, Lutheran, Anglican, Quaker, and even nondenominational backgrounds had expanded wildly across the Christian landscape, to the point that one out of every four Christians was an Evangelical. This was based on rigorous social research. The Emperor excluded Judaism, which served as an entry ticket to the financial elite, then obtained the relevant data from polling agencies and think tanks across the United States, using it to persuade Master Hamir. He claimed that if one set aside sectarian conflicts caused by racial differences—such as the white Evangelicals prevalent in the Rust Belt and the black Evangelicals in urban slums who believed God was black—the causes behind the emergence of extreme anti-intellectual sects centered on Christian Nationalism among white Evangelicals were nothing more than extreme wealth disparity, class disparity, and class barriers deliberately maintained by the ruling class.
Such believers were often poorly educated. They lacked the wisdom to explain the phenomena in their lives and could only interpret them through conspiracy theories within their understanding and that Bible. This concept could be extended further: the poorer and less educated the working people in a place were, the more rampant religious superstition became. The classes that held vast wealth locally would work hard to preserve religious faith. For example, in the famous 1926 Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, a young professor who taught evolution was fined by the court. Without proper ideological