Atheists.
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Sure, common values, great...but doesn't it matter whether the Earth is tens of thousands or billions of years old? Or whether there's an afterlife? I think that in Europe, more people have moved past the literal conception of religion and treat it more a metaphor, but I can assure you that here in the States, people take their religion very seriously indeed.
For instance, we could have been doing stem cell research for the past decade to find cures for many terminal diseases, but Bush blocked it because he believes it's immoral. Or the ban on gays marrying being another example.
The stuff that riles me up the most is this "intelligent design" thing, which is what "teleos" aka "discipler" is going on about all the time. The Christian fundamentalists have actually created fake science foundations (including one here in Seattle) to try to change the education system and get creationism taught alongside evolution and biology. Fortunately, most of their attempts have been overturned, showing that even in a religious country like this one, common sense eventually prevails.