Why is America so religious?

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Most countries which have the highest standard of living are becoming increasing secular and less religious.
In the UK its less people with each generation who seem to believe in myths and it seems to be becoming more and more atheist, whereas America seems to be obsessed with religion.

In short, we're stupid.

The long answer is:

I think most of us here can agree that humans are primates. Because this is the case, we only know what we learn, and we don't have some supernatural ability to learn stuff. This means that a person's philosophy directly relates to how much we think about philosophy in a lifetime. Here in America, philosophy is the boring thing that old dumb people do. Therefore, people are basically uneducated monkies who can use cell phones, when it comes to deep meaningful ideas. In America, (where I live, so I'm not just hating for no reason), most people simply don't think about anything (and I mean anything at all) that doesn't directly relate to getting money or spending money, and therefore 'God' is filled in by default, by people who never really think about anything.

Besides, people's lives are so planned out ahead of time, it's tough to be interested in anything. All you hear is how you need to make money. Literally everybody in the country is supposed to be a doctor or a lawyer. If you do something risky, like become a hair stylist, a programmer of any kind, or some other random career, all you'll hear about is how you should have done something that'll ensure a bright financial future (even if you'll hate your life). I understand money is improtant, but it's really taken to the extreme where I live. Money is really the only kind of success people understand.