While it's certainly true that a belief in God is far from confined to the U.S. (there are many people who believe in God everywhere), it's also true that the percentage of people who believe is much higher in the U.S. than in most European countries. In most surveys, more than 90 percent of Americans polled say they believe in God, making a belief in God one of the very few things that more than 90 percent of the population agrees on. In a 2005 study, the only European countries with this high a percentage of believers were Turkey and Malta. In one survey, only 4 percent of Americans claimed to be atheists, while nearly one third (31 percent) of the French said they were.
So instead of asking why Americans believe in God, a better question would be: "Why is a belief in God so overwhemingly held in the U.S., when in many other Western countries this belief is far from unanimous?"
I'm tempted to agree with this, only in the opposite direction. I hear so much from our friends on the other side of the pond about how we're the only ones who believe in God so much, why don't we join the rest of the modern Western world. I think, however, that it's the French that are too atheist, and not the Americans who are too religious.
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