The question that makes fundies hostile

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Fascinating stuff, especially the variance between countries. That suggests to me that it's the style of religiosity rather than the object of it, which is significant (in either direction).

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this.

That there is a country difference is probably indicative of the way a given country responds to religion in general.

In other words if we take 2 religious leaders of the past - George W Bush and Tony Blair, George would freely and often refer to his beliefs in God as governing his decisions whilst Tony would have to go to great lengths to show that his beliefs and his actions as Prime Minister were entirely separate.

Neither would have been electable in the other's country.

It would appear, therefore that belief is perceived as a positive in the US (although primarily only Christian Belief) but a negative in the UK.

That there are, consequently, relatively more depressed theists in the UK than in the US (in comparison to ratios for atheists) probably isn't surprising.

This might be what you were saying, I am not sure.