Influence of religion in American society

Influence of religion in American society

America has customarily been a religious country. "Its first Christian inhabitants were only too worried to understand what they were organising and why," understands historian Paul Johnson. "In a way the first American settlers were like the very vintage Israelites. They glimpsed themselves as hardworking bureaus of divine providence." (Kenneth 2002) Today, he adds, "it is generally accepted that more than half the American people still connect a position of adoration over a weekend, an catalogue of religious practice unequaled any position in the world, wholeheartedly in a large and ...