The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
America is an unusually religious nation.
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.
This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.
Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.
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.
Being religious is quintessentially American.