[ SECRET POST #5459 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5458 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Pratt is weirdly religious by Hollywood standards but he'd fit right in among the megachurch heartland. America being overtly Christian or not isn't what feeds the "weirdly religious" impression among non-Americans anyway. It's the particular way that religiosity manifests itself in the country, among all the other extremes. Italy, for example, is extremely religious, but it doesn't seem out of place at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t disagree with the first part, because he would fit right in with that crowd. But I admit I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to get across with the rest of your comment. How does the way the religiosity manifests itself in the country make it exceptionally “weirdly religious”? And how does it seem out of place compared to other extremely religious countries like Italy? Especially because Italy is home to the Vatican itself(although I know that Vatican City is considered a separate city-state, bordering on a micronation, but it did start out as part of Italy). America does have places like the Bible Belt, small town Flyover country, and non-metropolitan areas of the South. But it doesn’t feel that different from other religious countries other than location and local customs.

I’m usually all for making fun of America’s faults, but I don’t know about this being a fault individual to America. So far, it just seems like the standards people are usually for what makes the religiosity in America “weirdly religious” compared to other extremely religious countries that have a longer history with Christianity in general is just a distinction without much difference.

Maybe all Christian countries feel equally weirdly religious to me because I’m an atheist who feels uncomfortable around hyper-religious people in general, so it’s coloring my perception of the differences between the way it might be different in America compared to elsewhere. That’s entirely possible. I was also lucky to have all my religious relatives be as progressive and open-minded as religious people can be. So maybe that and my equally anecdotal experiences with being very lucky to have never lived in an oppressively Christian pocket of the country are also coloring my perception.

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Italian American dual citizen here. I'm an agnostic bordering on atheist depending on my mood.

Yes, some Italians are very religious and they fit in well with Italian society. However, there are a good many others who don't bother much with religion. One of the bigger reasons being is that they don't like to pay taxes to restore religious shrines, churches, and other holy sites.

I guess that is what you get when you don't separate church and state much.