# When would a minority of people be religious and how would society look like?

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**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-a-minority-of-people-be-religious-and-how-would-society-look-like/948260/59 "2021-08-10T02:19:33Z")

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> [@DemonTree](#):
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> What I’d like to know is why the US is sooo much more religious than Europe. None of the explanations I’ve heard really seem sufficient.

What explanations have you seen? One of the traditional explanations was that ‘church’ provided a connection and a guarantee for a highly mobile community. That certainly seems to have been the case for my father (who was also a Mason), and is referenced above in post 13 and

> [@Have You Experienced Culture Shock Moving Within Your Own Country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-culture-shock-moving-within-your-own-country/947268/52):
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in another thread.

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