Traditional Family Faith

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Catholic on my mothers side. Presbyterian on my fathers.

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What the christ. No-one cares if you convert to a religion. It would be seen as kind of weird since conversion is not something that's done here to anywhere near the extent of the US.

Bingo. America seems to have a great difficulty in understanding how unreligious, particularly amongst young people, Europe is. It's painful.

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That said though is "This way of thinking and identification is rare and quite alien to the Upper Midwest and thus difficult for me to comprehend" that difficult to understand?

I think we all understood and accepted that a while ago; it's just that you seem a little fixated on your difficulty comprehending it.

And of course the fact that established faiths; Catholicism, Judaism even Presbyterianism in broadly secular society remain as cultural artifacts. Modern day saccharin American evangelicalism whether it's at a giant mass church or in a pub basement doesn't really have an established 'culture' (yet) which permeates whole communities and across generations whether practicing, secular or atheist.