Why Is America Such A Religious Country?

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"Why Is America Such A Religious Country?". This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #612, "A Ghost Story. Tracie talks about a ghost story described in a viewer's e-mail", with Russell Glasser and Tracie Harris.

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[DemonZonkey]

Why is the US so religious?

Because we are stupid.

Why are we so stupid?

Because we are so religious.

[squallz13]

Religion is a virus and it spreads. Atheism is the cure.

[ChipArgyle]

The US also allowed religion to become big business.

[aardvarkcustard]

My 2p: The US is capitalist, values free enterprise, has few welfare nets and so suffers high anxiety. The huge drive to gain monopolistic power over the marketplace has to reign in. So we have a flourishing of numerous religious enterprises (a new one sprouts every week) which are competative and very distrustful of central Gov. Americans tolerate this faith nonsense as it reduses anxiety and fulfils the role that the welfare state does (properly) in the other Western secular dems.

[bull1arab]

@juliocesar8923 Country ( noun) a nation with it's own government, occupying a particular

territory. Source : a dictionary.

[boochainletters12]

@DemonZonkey Circular reasoning... or is it just a negative feedback loop?

[JjXuxinho]

@1:07, Massive Windows XP error, LOL

[Anarchy17SB]

@squallz13 Rational thinking is the cure, and it leads to atheism.

[dlbattle100]

Religion is strong in the US because we have religious freedom, and therefore we have a lot of religious diversity. Since there is more diversity for natural selection to operate on, there are stronger strains that develop and flourish.

[207112351]

You call America religous? Come on seriously?? LoL

[juliocesar8923]

wait a second.. america is a country??? come on..

a kid 5 years old.,or a retard. know america is a fucking continent..

the tittle of this video.. is wrong..

Im aproud to be atheist..

[1empathy]

@LouisPlume As an addendum, it appears "the wealth gap" ie the difference between the very rich and the very poor and the extent of the welfare state correlates with the religiosity in this way.. .the more equal the society ( in other words the more just the society), the less people looked for justice in the unknown future. surely religion is a social construct we would be better without?