I don't know what it's like in the U.K., beyond the picture I get from the Brits at these forums, but I can tell that the U.S is far, far closer to theocracy than the U.K. Not that we're close, but we sure do have a lot of vocal supporters of such an idea.
I think our sheer size has a lot to do with it, actually. Groups of people, some very, very small, others quite large, and all sizes in-between, are relatively isolated from the other groups of people. The resultant number of subcultures in this country is almost unbelievable. The variances in what these subcultures believe and the opinions that they hold literally spans the entire spectrum (and beyond).
Look at Texas, for example. That one state is larger than all of England. A full 1/3 of people in that state think that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. And there are 49 more places where such stupidity grows in isolated little backwater towns. We aren't all grouped together in a relatively small area. There are empty places bigger than the U.K. between some of these subculture groups.
All in all, the number of loony-toon fundies per capita is probably not that much different between the U.S. and the U.K. But when you have the numbers that we do, you hear them when they shout... and they do so love to shout.
I think our sheer size has a lot to do with it, actually. Groups of people, some very, very small, others quite large, and all sizes in-between, are relatively isolated from the other groups of people. The resultant number of subcultures in this country is almost unbelievable. The variances in what these subcultures believe and the opinions that they hold literally spans the entire spectrum (and beyond).
Look at Texas, for example. That one state is larger than all of England. A full 1/3 of people in that state think that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. And there are 49 more places where such stupidity grows in isolated little backwater towns. We aren't all grouped together in a relatively small area. There are empty places bigger than the U.K. between some of these subculture groups.
All in all, the number of loony-toon fundies per capita is probably not that much different between the U.S. and the U.K. But when you have the numbers that we do, you hear them when they shout... and they do so love to shout.
