Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations

[Anonymous]

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-are-far-more-religious-than-adults-in-other-wealthy-nations/

In fact, Americans pray more often, are more likely to attend weekly religious services and ascribe higher importance to faith in their lives than adults in other wealthy, Western democracies, such as Canada, Australia and most European states, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

For instance, more than half of American adults (55%) say they pray daily, compared with 25% in Canada, 18% in Australia and 6% in Great Britain. (The average European country stands at 22%.) Actually, when it comes to their prayer habits, Americans are more like people in many poorer, developing nations – including South Africa (52%), Bangladesh (57%) and Bolivia (56%) – than people in richer countries.

As it turns out, the U.S. is the only country out of 102 examined in the study that has higher-than-average levels of both prayer and wealth.

I wonder why this is??

[Anonymous]

Probably because we were founded by especially devout people?

[Anonymous]

Of course we're praying. We're praying we don't die in a mass shooting!

[Anonymous]

Well Canada was founded by whores and trappers, Australia was prison inmates and Americans left the UK to be free to practice crazy religious beliefs...so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-are-far-more-religious-than-adults-in-other-wealthy-nations/

In fact, Americans pray more often, are more likely to attend weekly religious services and ascribe higher importance to faith in their lives than adults in other wealthy, Western democracies, such as Canada, Australia and most European states, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

For instance, more than half of American adults (55%) say they pray daily, compared with 25% in Canada, 18% in Australia and 6% in Great Britain. (The average European country stands at 22%.) Actually, when it comes to their prayer habits, Americans are more like people in many poorer, developing nations – including South Africa (52%), Bangladesh (57%) and Bolivia (56%) – than people in richer countries.

As it turns out, the U.S. is the only country out of 102 examined in the study that has higher-than-average levels of both prayer and wealth.

I wonder why this is??

the study is 4 years old. Things have changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably because we were founded by especially devout people?

Exactly. That will never change, thank God.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably because we were founded by especially devout people?

Exactly. Plus, we border Latin America - lots of Catholics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably because we were founded by especially devout people?

Except we weren’t. Many of the Founding Fathers were more Deist than traditional Christians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably because we were founded by especially devout people?

Exactly. Plus, we border Latin America - lots of Catholics.

Good point.

[Anonymous]

Because (until recently) there was a separation of church and state. I wonder how really devout people are in a country that has an official religion, where you get in trouble if you don't follow the approved politically-sanctioned worship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well Canada was founded by whores and trappers, Australia was prison inmates and Americans left the UK to be free to practice crazy religious beliefs...so...

Australia was a prison colony, but there were too few women for them to be founders. Brazil was a slave colony for me only

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-are-far-more-religious-than-adults-in-other-wealthy-nations/

In fact, Americans pray more often, are more likely to attend weekly religious services and ascribe higher importance to faith in their lives than adults in other wealthy, Western democracies, such as Canada, Australia and most European states, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

For instance, more than half of American adults (55%) say they pray daily, compared with 25% in Canada, 18% in Australia and 6% in Great Britain. (The average European country stands at 22%.) Actually, when it comes to their prayer habits, Americans are more like people in many poorer, developing nations – including South Africa (52%), Bangladesh (57%) and Bolivia (56%) – than people in richer countries.

As it turns out, the U.S. is the only country out of 102 examined in the study that has higher-than-average levels of both prayer and wealth.

I wonder why this is??

the study is 4 years old. Things have changed.

No they haven’t. Not at all.

Op, I don’t find it surprising at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-are-far-more-religious-than-adults-in-other-wealthy-nations/

In fact, Americans pray more often, are more likely to attend weekly religious services and ascribe higher importance to faith in their lives than adults in other wealthy, Western democracies, such as Canada, Australia and most European states, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

For instance, more than half of American adults (55%) say they pray daily, compared with 25% in Canada, 18% in Australia and 6% in Great Britain. (The average European country stands at 22%.) Actually, when it comes to their prayer habits, Americans are more like people in many poorer, developing nations – including South Africa (52%), Bangladesh (57%) and Bolivia (56%) – than people in richer countries.

As it turns out, the U.S. is the only country out of 102 examined in the study that has higher-than-average levels of both prayer and wealth.

I wonder why this is??

A lot of it is virtual signaling and Christian nationalism. Especially the sort of muscular Christianity you encounter in flyover country where obese men who cosplay soldier hasten to showcase their Jesus tattoos and tell you their church affiliation as quickly as a DC denizen tells you where they work.

[Anonymous]

*virtue signaling I mean

[Anonymous]

Gross.

- descendant of Mayflower peeps