Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations

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Anonymous wrote: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.

You think the reason people aren't religious in Canada, Australia, and Great Britain is because those countries force religion on people?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You think the reason people aren't religious in Canada, Australia, and Great Britain is because those countries force religion on people?

NP — Historically, the UK absolutely did.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Exactly. That will never change, thank God.

People who were especially devout about the concept of separation of church and state.

[Anonymous]

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

We were founded by slave owners.

We were also created by people who fled govt sanctioned religion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gross.

- descendant of Mayflower peeps

You mean murderers, slave owners and slave originators?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

We were founded by slave owners.

We were also created by people who fled govt sanctioned religion.

Only because they wanted the government to sanction their religion instead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

We were founded by slave owners.

We were also created by people who fled govt sanctioned religion.

Only because they wanted the government to sanction their religion instead

I think you’re all confusing the Puritans with the people who actually founded our country.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gross.

- descendant of Mayflower peeps

You mean murderers, slave owners and slave originators?

They absolutely did not which is why we have separation of church and state

[Anonymous]

+1 for Christian Nationalism. I don't know another country, where christian nationalists have so much power like in the USA.

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The pilgrims were Puritans who thought fun was sinful. It wasn’t so much that they were persecuted but rather they were insufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 for Christian Nationalism. I don't know another country, where christian nationalists have so much power like in the USA.

Iran?

Obviously not Christian, but Iran was a progressive country once until the Islamist nationalists took over.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 for Christian Nationalism. I don't know another country, where christian nationalists have so much power like in the USA.

Ok, but surely you realize there are countries where religion plays an extremely large role, correct? Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

There are many more people who are openly "none" than before.

No they haven’t. Not at all.

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

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Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Stupid response. We're not more religious because we border Latin America. In fact, we send our "missionaries" there to try and indoctrinate them -- not the other way around.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

The Founding Fathers didn't "Found" us. They secured our independence. We were founded much earlier than that, by people seeking greater religious freedom.

Geez.