Why is religion so prominent in the United States compared to other developed countries?
Many people have given different approaches to this question, and I’ll just give one approach that I find interesting. America is different from Asia and Europe in the sense that we are much more independent. Asia and Europe are very urbanized and people talk to each other and are gathered into communities. What I mean by that is that most Americans, about 85-90% live either in suburbs or in the farm. A suburb is basically where you live in a house and you go to work or go shopping in a car and you really have minimal contact with others. You don’t ever have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to. No of course, this does not mean people will be more inclined to one thing over another, but I do think that it means that people do what they want more often. Americans are more independent in that way. Americans don’t all dress the same or act the same way. There is no “typical American food” or anything else. Americans follow dozens of different types of Christianities and all other religi
After the pioneers had trail blazed the United States, a whole bunch of religious nutters ran over there to build a new ‘paradise’ away from the rest of ‘normal’ europe, who were persecuting (taking the mick) out of their (odd) beliefs, and thus the US of A has more than its fair share of complete inbreds and religious nuts, more in proportion to the rest of the globe, and that’s why the environment is so religiously charged, any American with half a brain, has to run the gauntlet of religious (child abuse) indoctrination, many bright Americans, do not get to the point of using their potential intellect, they get sweep up in the religious fervour of the ‘sheep’ reared on the very odd or extreme views exported by the ‘father’s’ whom fled Europe.
