Rock and roll, Blues, hippies, outlaw biker gangs, Mcdonalds, KFC,Starbucks, MSN, Apple, happy clappy churches and on and on

@Moravian I lived in USA for years, I never felt so British (wtf that means). We are not American or even Americanised...we are a mongrel country that takes the good bits of other nations and gets rid of the rest. The UK will never become so overtly religious as USA, many have tried and they have always failed. We are at source at set of wild n wooly anglo saxon heathens.

I am sure you are right but one of the mainstream churches in Aberdeen has opened one of those happy clappy churches to try to attract youngsters and it has been so successful that they intend to open a further 21(twenty one) throughout Scotland.
Journalist Jon Soper has recently published a book called "If only they didn't speak English" which discusses the different cultures in the two countries. A lot of British people think we atre almost the same but as you say nothing is further from the truth,

@Moravian Sometimes the differences are so subtle as to be difficult to accurately explain. As in the word 'Momentarily' which has a slightly different meaning in USA. The 'alpha' course which came to UK from USA, wrapped Christianity in some woo wooey self help jargon and does appeal to youngsters, however it has recently come under a huge amount of criticism, especially in the context of shaming sexually active young people and trying to undo the concepts of Gillick competency. In my experience these god botherers can only push their message so far (until they try to ban mince pies ) before Brits hit back.

@Amisja [cbssports.com]

This is one great American tradition I will certainly not be joining.

@Moravian You don't need to. UK only has one religion and it involves a ball.

@Moravian Hahaha, I believe that is a popular enough religion but it isn't football. During a recent world cup,;a vicar round here set up a TV in church so that his parisioners wouldn't miss any of the matches.

@Amisja It is certainly a religion in Scotland and the sectarian divide is still evident but at the moment with the 6 nations in full swing I am more into that game played by men, and now women, with funny shaped balls.

@Moravian Oh I do like rubgy.