(August 1, 2017 at 8:38 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I think it's difficult to compare America to the UK because of the size difference, America being 40 times bigger.
Maybe it's because there's a bigger sample size to pick from or because of real differences in genetics or culture but America does seem to have more extremes of things in general.
We have groups of homeless people living in the town center, they have streets of tents in some poor areas.
We have some rough inner city areas, they have ghettos.
We have some places with expensive houses, they have more of it, billionaire mansions and so on.
Blackpool - Las Vegas.
Not that I'm saying American Christians are dicks either, but if there is a difference in religious culture I imagine it's something to do with an overall American culture and/or the sample size of the population of America.
I think it may be due to the type of early settlers. many of the first ones across to the US went to preserve their archaic views from the progressive what ever century they were fleeing and the thought and in some cases technology were frozen at the time they went.
Look at the Amish.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.