This was a really useful article. Thanks for writing it. The USA is an outlier among OECD nations insofar as it more closely resembles third-world nations and Eastern European countries than it does countries within the EU, due to its high level of religiosity. As religionism is correlated with bigotry, intolerance, and low-IQ, this results in a most unfortunate situation in the USA.

Ultimately, as religionism results from a failure of intellect and has many deliterious effects, we must hope that one day it is widely recognized that no society aspiring to humane values and civilized behavior should tolerate the promulgation of deeply toxic mythologies originating among violent neurotic goat-herders and other primitive tribes. Until then, it may be advisable to keep your head down, because religionists are often driven to acts of violence by their intolerant creeds and by power-seeking priests.