How much is religion a part of your culture?

Not asking if you're religious, but in your society or community how much does religion play a part of your traditions or art or culture?

For example, Christmas is a celebration but it is a religious celebration unlike Halloween or Thanksgiving. Do you have interesting traditions in your community that you enjoy celebrating?

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CopperCicada · M

America is a little crazy when it comes to religion. A dominant and vocal social and political subset asserts that America is a Christian nation and intended to be a theocracy, while the historical record, and biographical details of the founding fathers, shows quite the opposite. Then we see religious adherence on the decline, religious illiteracy at quite high levels, and a dissonance between religious confession and participation. Not to mention between confession and divorce, porn consumption, premarital sex, and so on.

Where I am the culture is to go to one’s church on Sunday, Bible study during the week. Observance on Easter and Christmas. Where I grew up the dominant denominations were different flavors of Catholicism, Lutherans, and there were more ways to participate. And each observance had more stuff.