as for america, the resurgence of fundamntalist protestant christianity in the middle of the last century has continuously developed since then. the churches in britian as well as a lot of the catholic church, atleast in one respect or the other accepts the scientific theories of evolution/creation of the universe etc etc. while the fundamentalism in america has reached heiggts where evolution is being called a lie, 50% of people{whichh is about the number of strong followers of american protestant churches} beleive that the earth is less than 10000 years old, homosexuals are openly beign protested against and called immoral , many many billions of dollars go into televangelism and teaching of extremism, there are organised movements to indoctrinate children as well as manipulate{literally} unbeleivers in beleiving the christian faith, there are channels like fox which are openly taking relegious sides and posting so much propaganda and bullshit that th e bar for liberty has been totally destroyed, billions of dollars are going into organisations helpingisrael to terrorise and massacre palestenians due to the prophecies in the bible, false media campaigns are run to give all other faiths a bad name, people are actually starting to beleive that the earth is the centre of the unievrse again, masses and ceremonies take place at mega churches where mass HEALINGS of incurable diseases and damaga of humans is taking place{also on air} and every1 buys into it, a significant portion of the senate as well as the entire right wing is directly part of the same party of people passing incredibly discriminatory legislation and totally ****ing any ideals of liberty and reason that rose out of the crap in america's past{a major reason the country was founded}, the president who starts everyday with bible class, quotes scripture upon scripture on israel's birthday this year as a valid POLITICAL {which shud be his only role} justification of wiping out those "filthy muslims" , and beleives that new canan belongs to bani israel, actively lies to americas people and pursues wars in afghanistan and iraq whose major purpose outside stealing of oil is teh destruction of islamic centres of faith and people bordering near the holy land{and islam being the only other idiotic relegious power insane enough to challenge christianity at the moment} accepts massacre and war in lebonan and actively funds it on basis of relegious beleifs again, openly says that relegion is a deciding factor in choosing people for public posts{which is ILLEGAL}, etc etc etc. that on top of the actual teachings of the churches which these leaders and politicians subscribe to{but dont publically proclaim} are actually horrifying. america as actually making some fukin progress 30 decades or so ago, atleast there were public protests in vietnam etc{btw these days, it seem that the vietnam campaign is more accepted than the days it was actually going on, as opposed ot the opposite being true, courtesy of the manipulation of the western media} now people dont even seem to give a **** about iraq and afghanistan outside of the killing of AMERICAN SOLDIERS, which is the only worry. while 80 percent of the infrastructure in lebonan was tergetedly destroyed as well as 2.5% of the populationf of iraq being officially dead and the figure rising to around 8 to 10 times that in reality.
hey did i mention that legally, crime or offence done in the name of sexual prejudice in america{etc against gays etc} is not even legally CATEGORISED under "hate crime". thats really how influential relegion is in american politics right now. gay marriage is not legalised in most states and some even have laws which can prosecute homosexual BEHAVIOUR. bill o riely is considered a SIGNIFICANT AND RESPECTABLE journalist and interviewer and the madness continues. as far as libert goes, scandanavia, much of europe{even where significant cathlicism is practiced}, canada, south america, developed parts of africa/developed parts of middle east{like turkey} and even friggin britian and australia/nwzealand have more of it and more open thinking and less extremism than america. if you wanna ever KNOW how much teh american media systematically hides as does the government, read a few books by noam chomsky etc or looka at some of his interviews. among other people.
the only other relegious movement in america that scares me is scientology.