They say US is 85% religious, but drive around and look at the church parking lots...it doesn't look like 85% of the cars in the country are there on Sunday morning :)

Consider how xmas and easter are secular holidays and you'll see US is not a religious society. The religious would like it to be a theocracy, but that will never happen because most people don't want their freedoms taken away.

You just have a bunch of people who don't know what it means to be religious CLAIMING they are religious.

Absolutely. It is a *very* religious society. There are laws requiring you to swear into office on a bible, in some places.

At the same time, however, it was *conceived* as a secular society - in direct opposition to the Church's reign in Europe. You have lots of secular freedoms; such as - as an easy example - the freedom to speech, and the freedom of religion.

A secular country that slowly devolved into a religiously-intoxicated one. The cold war is a good place to start researching as to why this is.

*if* you decide to take your essay that route :P

Yes, most of America is religious and it's a big part of daily life.

We do delight in those non secular British memories... The Lord of the jewelry and Narnia!!! i'm no longer so specific with reference to the a turning out to be kind of non secular area... yet customarily usa is extra non secular than Europe... some human beings say usa is almost a place the place the Swedes (the least non secular) rule over the Indians (the main non secular) For some ethinic communities the less city aspects of the U. S., the 'fatherland' sections of the U. S. tended to hold onto religous values. In city aspects evidently that interior the U. S. blacks are the main church going team of folk and so there's a dynamic interior the U. S. retaining onto non secular faith interior the rustic with whites and interior the city with blacks... it particularly is an over generalization of direction yet quite real. the U. S. has a extra ideal base of inner maximum Christian training in grade college, severe college and faculty and in step with threat the extra secular standard college gadget in EUrope performed a factor? interior the U. S. you have considered over 50 years of efforts of Campus marketing campaign, Inter Varsity and the Navigators working in college campusses to effect them in the direction of Christianity and that i think of they did allot. interior the U. S. you exagerate, few human beings interior the U. S. are suggesting public colleges give up coaching evolution, pupils and oldsters overwhelmingly could desire to work out smart layout and creation technological information taught to boot. Frankly the creationary technological information is plenty extra ideal than evolutionary naturalism. extra valuable technological information yet they have a tendency to unfastened the propaganda conflict. England has extra communicate of barring faith from Dawkins and Sir Elton John... this does not fly interior the U. S..... I could desire to accomplish a splash learn on the why... seems the guidelines o Christianity in Europe have been heavily eroded after WWII... comparable ought to ensue interior the U. S. Europe customarily is plenty extra secular than the U. S.... with Canada in between and a few exceptions in Europe like eire and Poland... For some reason Europe as an entire has made a pointy turn in the direction of radical secularism after WWII. loss of familiarity with the scriptures? loss of information of the significant strengths of creationary perspectives? and absence of information of the inadequacies of naturalism.

Definitely, so much that in some parts the people are known for following the Bible completely as if it is factual

Pro: look at what percent of the society is religious, there's plenty of census data

Pro: we swear on the bible in court, and have god on our money, and edited into our pledge of allegiance

Con: Separation of church and state

Con: Roe V Wade

Con: creationism is not allowed in schools (With a Pro: it is taught anyway)

I don't care. I don't believe in magical sky daddy.