I have trouble understanding why people in the USA put up with the pressure to be conspicuously Christian, particularly in the Bible Belt. Until the MacCarthy era, you were "one nation indivisible", not "one nation, indivisible, under God".

I've read posts (not here, obviously) even from devout Christians feeling very uncomfortable when living in the Bible Belt - so why don't they do something about it instead of being intimidated?

In the UK, at least outside of small villages, Christian fundamentalists are laughed at and mainly ignored - why do they get so much heed paid them in the USA?

We don't have Church & State divided off, as the USA does, so how come Americans seem to get a lot more trouble with the moral majority than we do?

Is it because the UK has a long history of more tolerance of religious diversity and freedom of conscience? Is it because the USA ended up being settled by some of our bigots? Is it the fault of early colonists being obsessed with conspicuous piety? Or is it something else?