Conspiracy Theories

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Influential how? I've heard good things this week about some AOG church revival in the US somewhere... apart from that I can name no other. I can think of churches in Africa, Indonesia, Europe, etc where good things happen. Like a UK journalist said last year - despite a large church going populous - the US is possibly the least religious place on the planet.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/fai...igiou.html

December 16, 2009
U.S. is most religious in industrialized world

With 89 percent of the population religious and 62 percent highly so, the United States is the most religious nation in the industrialized world, according to an international survey released this week.

Religiosity remains high among all adult age groups, according to the Bertelsmann Foundation's Religion Monitor, and large majorities of Catholics and Protestants say that their religious beliefs affect their political views.


and

http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304/Nov24_03/15.shtml

U.S. one of the most religious countries

By Diane Swanbrow
News Service

The United States remains among the most religious nations in the world, according to a worldwide study by the University.

About 46 percent of American adults attend church at least once a week, not counting weddings, funerals and christenings, compared with 14 percent of adults in Great Britain, 8 percent in France, 7 percent in Sweden and 4 percent in Japan.

and

http://www.tourism-review.com/article/14...ous-people

Although the U.S. is not the most religious country in the world, it is much more so compared to the rest of the developed world. Some 65 per cent of U.S. citizens believe that religion is important in their daily lives. There are, however, important differences among the individual states. The most religious state is Mississippi with 85 per cent (similarly Lebanon has 86 per cent and Iran 83 per cent). On the other hand the least religious state is Vermont with 42 per cent, which is the same as in Switzerland.

and

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/10/15/a...stitution/

America is substantively and experientially a deeply religious country, and its political discourse has always been saturated with religious rhetoric and imagery.