(December 9, 2013 at 4:57 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: All the while people can be herded by the stick and carrot of religion in the direction powerful people with them to go, religion will never die out. It remains the number one way to get popular support for anything from war to tax laws.
From the outside America seems far more religious new than it was 20 years ago.
From inside, that is understandable but not really correct. What's really happening is that religious Americans are far louder and more public and pushy about their beliefs because, for the first time, they feel that Christianity's status as de facto national religion is legitimately threatened.
