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Not sure what point you're trying to make. The seat of Catholicism in Europe and American fundamentalists have very few things in common. Even American Catholics have very little crossover with their evangelical counterparts.
The point I'm trying to make is Christianity across the globe is an absurd denial of facts and the observable world. There isn't really anything more dramatic about American Christians vs Christians in Europe or anywhere else for that matter.
As an American raised in a religious household who's extremely familiar with European culture, people, and living; you are unfortunately wrong.
American Christianity is its own brand, and Europe has absolutely nothing like it. Nothing. Not at the scale of US religion absurdity.
I too was raised with religion (Catholicism) in the US, while my wife grew up going to Baptist churches - our childhoods could not have been more different. I was taught that studying science and the processes of observation and inquiry bring you closer to God, while for her the sciences were alternately ignored or lied about. Our family gave into the collection basket of our own will because we believed raising funds for good causes was the right thing to do. Her family was under compulsory tithing - 10% of all income. I was allowed to read whatever books, consume whatever media, and wear whatever I wanted, she was not. The list goes on...
I'm not trying to whitewash Catholicism - it obviously has its own major issues that shouldn't be ignored, but it's a far cry from the fundamentalist book burners who my family thought of as zealous nut bags.