Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
...I didn't say there was no religious belief in the USA, I said it is a post-enlightment religious belief that is the dominant factor.
Phrased this way, I have no objection. Your first wording implied that the West, in its entirety, had discarded religion as no longer "real." That is the opinion of many but by no means all. This rephrasing is much more apt.