The Importance of Religion in the United States

i noticed coming going from Australia to the United States about 20 years ago that it is a much more religious society than ours in some ways. It's not that there aren't religious communities where that does matter of course but you know that you're going to be isolated if you don't belong to some religious community maybe afl has kind of filled that in i'm not saying that we shouldn't mock it but i think we should approach it carefully given as Brett Weinstein has said to me before it's obviously an adaptation and i'm not convinced that counterfactually we would get the same benefits without religion That remains to be seen so for example Robert Putnaman uh David Campbell have a book American