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Originally Posted by IndigoErth
Sure, family teaching, but you think that sticks forever?
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Good question.
Obviously depends on a multitude of factors, with one having influenced your family towards non-belief being the fact that at its very core, the United States is fundamentally atheistic with "Congress shall pass no law respecting the establishment of religion". The society you come from does not respect religion as an establishment, so religion's influence on American society has declined considerably with time, with many things being legal today that were unthinkable in the past.
The United States isn't just going to keep its ideology of "freedom from state religion" to itself though, it always tries to spread it to other countries. Hence, the mass bombing campaigns of the Middle East, invasions, economic sanctions of countries that do not agree with its ideology etc.
But the United States will ultimately fail in its quest to wipe out state religions, Islam specifically. No amount of air raids and invasions were able to wipe out the Taliban in 20 years, and they are only a tiny portion of the Muslim world.