...I think mixing religion and politics is something intrinsic to your and unfortunately other more threatening nations. That is what scares outsiders like myself.
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1. For the most part, the Founding Fathers were not active Christians in the way that is often assumed today. 2. The US was not founded as a “Christian nation.” Typically, as education and income levels go up in a society, religiosity declines—the US being the exception.
"Some are the strong, silent type. You can't put your finger on exactly what it is they bring to the table until you run without them and then you realize that their steadiness fills a hole that leaks energy in their absence." - Kristin Armstrong
religiosity is, in fact, inversely correlated with both education level and income across societies (see graph below using wealth--which is itself closely correlated with education). But correlation is not causation and I did not mean to imply that it was. My point was that the US is the exception to this pattern--as you can see in the graph.