A big part of why the U.S. is an outlier in all these religiosity vs X graphs is because in the vast majority of the U.S. there is no forum for community or soc

A big part of why the U.S. is an outlier in all these religiosity vs X graphs is because in the vast majority of the U.S. there is no forum for community or social cohesion apart from religion. Outside of the church, most of American culture is utterly asocial. This is only somewhat accidental, though. There is a long history of stealth or not-so-stealth repression of non-religious social and cultural phenomena in the US. Virtually any form of human cultural expression outside of religion tends to be classed as "deviant" or "counterculture" and at least discouraged. The mechanisms are occasionally overt, as with serious countercultures, but more often take subtile and complex forms involving combinations of social discouragement, media vilification, conformism, zoning regulations, anti-social urban development patterns, etc. This isn't true across all of America. In the places where it isn't true (e.g. San Francisco, New York, etc.), the religiosity vs. X numbers look a lot more like other developed countries. In the "flyover country," fascist social conservatism represses all non-religious expression.