Anything But An Atheist. How come?

[EspressoFrog]

I hope I'm not too late by answering the original question at page 3 or 4 of an already going on debate. After being born and raised in a country where being an atheist is ok, what I've gathered from the US by living there a few years (step dad was american, so is my half-bro) is that society wants you to say you believe in God. No one says you really have to inside. It just that you are imposed a religious label of a sort to fit in. Answering "oh I'm an atheist!" may upset that agnostic in front of you who tried all of her life to hide it. They must hate the carefree way we have of saying it loud and clear. I don't think that so many people are actually that religious, it's mostly conformism and social rigidity... or am I that naive?