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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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??[/quote]

Many reasons, but I wouldn’t call it divine providence or an example of the inherent moral superiority of Americans. This country has incredible natural advantages, and has its roots in providing a place of freedom for followers of the various Christian denominations not tolerated by the Church of England for one reason or another. Many people came here with the “God gene” intact and bred it over successive generations. We had no problem brutally exploiting people and the land itself to extract maximum gain. We created prosperity gospel and convinced ourselves our capitalistic success was the result of God’s blessing, even though it’s patently ridiculous.

At the time of the Founding, there were significant divisions amongst the various denominations. People fought and died over them in Europe, and they would have here too if the Founders didn’t have the presence of mind to keep “church” (which church?) and the state separate. Up sprang a state religion in its place- the land of God Blessed America, where Jesus wants you to be rich and armed to the teeth, and if you’re not it’s obviously your own fault. The rest of the civilized world has moved on. [/quote]

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