Why does religion has such a strong hold in America?

Goddamn evangelicals, OP

[quote] Why does religion has such a strong hold

Why do DLers have such atrociously bad grammar?? HAVE

The atheist troll strikes again.

Because the USA was founded by religious lunatics. If only the Mayflower had sunk...

R4, only if….

The rest of western societies laughing at America.

Capitalism.

America has such a huge income disparity that people need to justify their greed, inheritance, and/or ill-gotten gains.

Every TV evangelist, anti- abortion politician and nutcase Christian needs to have all his or her daughters get pregnant right now.

I'm glad to live in a country of heathens - it sucks for you guys.

Americans are infamous for their faux patriotism and their even more faux religious piety.

Because this is a terrible country full of horrible people.

Shitty public educational system, by design.

I really wish these religious hypocrites would do something to ease the suffering of all the unwanted or impoverished children out there. Republicans are always against any kind of social services. It makes me so angry knowing what the foster care system is like and that thousands of kids are just missing and nobody cares. Yet these assholes are heroes in their own minds and they can’t even be there for actual children who exist never mind hypothetical babies.

Lack of education in the red states

White American trash is its own toxic culture distinct from other whites. A teenager goes into an elementary school and shoots little children and they fight to expand gun rights.

What R15 said. We have that weird, toxic white nationalism. It’s the worship of guns and whiteness, not Jesus. It’s not really a religion, it’s “blood and soil” fascism.

[quote]Goddamn evangelicals, OP

Except the court is mostly Catholic.

I don't think there's anything stupider than when I see people including shitheads on here talking about immigrants (aka only the non-white ones) coming here and not having "western values," when all of the "real Americans" (aka white trash assholes) have absolutely nothing in common with people in much of Europe. Some Evangelical hick in KY has nothing in common with an artist in Sweden.

So fuck you, because it was never about "western values," it was always about epidermis alone and nothing else.