negotiated, rather than sublimated into squabbles over the Earth's age or Lunar Genesis readings; religion's a dimension to life, rather than a label of identity or a "social group" (ironically I think this is because they have 80-95% of the country in one single denomination); even the nonbelievers talk in terms of the mainstream's theology (Philip Pullman calls himself a "Church of England atheist" for instance, and he blames the Papists for creationism and Victorian workhouses)
even my most conservative Catholic (they're Polish) acquaintances just turn and stare when I mention that 50% of the country volunteers that the Earth is 10,000 years old: they know that both Protestants and Catholics accepted Darwin and Wallace by 1875, provided it wasn't deist, Social-Darwinist (the Prots were more okay with this), or nihilist (heck, so did America's Baptists)--but America adores DIY religion, making it theologically different from even Canada, so we took a different path with the 1900s' revival and coining of "fundamentalism" against various Victorian theologies (who in turn were responses to something else)
also there's a different timbre in Continental and pan-Anglo conservatisms--remember that the 19th-c. "liberals" in the Catholic world that secularized the state were foamingly anticlerical but also economically right-wing (they slaughtered Canudos, enslaved the Maya, and gave us Columbus Day since they thought he was a progressive defying the Church); several dialectical twists and turns later we get a postwar politico-religious settlement in places like Italy while America was sorta divided between types who thought Jesus was the patron of the American Way (many of these would become Vietnam's conscientious objectors) vs. those who were certain that prosperity meant religion had only 15 more years to go as of 1966 or 1973 (again, this side was represented by Vietnam boosters and opponents), a configuration that was easily exploited to create the 70s-90s Culture Wars
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