Nope. You just think that you live on a more Christan continent than we Europeans do. It is a silly self-suggestion. At first sight we could get the impression that Americans are indeed more religious than Europeans. De facto in your country some (not all) people simply make more noise about their Christianity with big TV-shows and disgusting public commitments about the most private experiences. Many of your politicians have to turn their churchgoing into a public act to be elected. We European Christians do not demand such from our leaders nor do we live our religiousness in the public.
Why?
Because it is simply unchristian. I recommend the reading of your bible:
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Mattew 6 (to me and my Christian life much more important than the Genesis)
As for restricted access to information, I suggest you suffer from that in your government schools. How much creation science evidence were you offered? Did you get to hear a debate? Did you get to read anything that questioned Darwinism? Were any of the weaknesses of Darwinian theory exposed? If not, you were brainwashed.
Well I send my kids on a private catholic school in Germany. They are of course taught about the Genesis just like I have been in the 70ties. I followed the debate in the US since many years because I read some American newspapers and I join American websites like here on FR. Since the so called "creation science evidence" is extremely funny for someone with a engineering and mathematical background like me, I could laugh about it if it would not be the other way around as you write it. Such dissemination through i.e. "homeschooling" families leads to brainwashed kids that believe into myths (I do not say Genesis is a myth, but it is senseless to lock it on details) that do not make any sense. Limited access to free information leaves for sure many children in a mental dungeon in your country. Being a real Christian means to have a choice. It is quite simple - for having the choice you need the whole information for the whole image. Those poor kids only possess over the information the spiritual leaders of their parents selected for them. Since the end of the cold war we find museums whose expositions are obviously pure propaganda-shows without any reference to reality only in North Korea. It is a tragedy to me that America has now joined into this exclusive club.
Guess what - such has to do with freedom. :(
I would think about it.
I call Europe post-Christian because, by there own surveys, there are few professing Christians there. Also, church attendance is very low. So I don’t state it as an opinion, but as a measurable fact.
If you are going to ignore the “details” of Scripture, as you recommend, which ones are you going to ignore?
I am glad your kids, in private Catholic school, are going to apparently get both sides of the issue. It is nice to at least get some equal time!
Your suggest I read the Bible. I suggest you believe it! All of it, that is. Apparently, you at least believe parts.