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[–]KingDickThe2nd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was actually thinking exactly this earlier today.

Not being an American and watching the US from afar when I was younger, it always amazed me how normalised psychotic religious beliefs were in American culture.

Having a "conversation with God" in your head was not represented as a sign of severe mental illness in American media, but rather as devout religious belief.

Because the US for so long has been so consumed by religious belief, the rise of atheism has also created a rise in pseudoscience, junk science and extremist ideology to fill the vacuum or belief gap.

For every action, there is always an inverse reaction.