[neves]

The USA was founded by fundamentalists. They where expelled from England. They were ridiculed and called Puritans.

USA also was the only occidental country to forbid alcohol consumption, like Saudi Arabia today.

The irrational genes are in the fabric of American society.

[larsiusprime]

Cmon the puritans were one of many different founding cohorts. Quakers, borderers, cavaliers, etc. America was never of one mind on the subject of religion.