Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.
Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.