Edit: Thanks so much for the answers already. Can you focus a bit more on the difference US/Europe? I now really feel it’s twisted - Evangelicals are mor radical than Catholics in the US and Catholics being more radical in Europe
All I hear from evangelicals in the US is that they are super radical. Here in central Europe, we are divided between Catholics and Protestants (evangelic). The catholics are usually seen as much more conservative than protestants, regarding marriage of pastors, LGBTQ etc. The protestants here (I was baptized as one but left the church later) are pretty chill with all that.
So my question is: How do European Protestants and US evangelicals differ? Are the evangelicals really more radical than US catholics, or are they just the majority? Do temperate Christians exist in the US?
As a very liberal and active European Protestant, I would add that, unfortunately, American evangelicalism exerts a strong influence on European Protestantism. The Lutheran Church of Latvia, for example, decided a few years ago to stop ordaining women pastors. In my (French) church, new pastors are on average more conservative than their predecessors (but the remaining liberal pastors are even more so than their predecessors). Evangelicals have the resources and use them extensively; they are winning the cultural battle, unfortunately. Protestant churches are still resisting, but we will have to learn to make ourselves heard if we don’t want sectarianism to set us back a century or two.