Noam Chomsky on religion

I find some of Chomsky’s connections pointing to a depoliticised America, the lack of a Labor Party ( while all the other industrialized countries have one ) and the ‘narrowness’ of our political system playing into the odd type of religious fundamentalism that exists here.

His point is that Americans have been separated from the very civic institutions, which exist in other modern countries, and so fall back onto religous institutions to provide that necessary sense of belonging.

Americans are, among modern societies, perhaps the least politically savvy or even interested … which may or may not give rise to the unusual religiosity that exists here, but it’s tempting to make the connection.