@feld @EeveeEuphoria @hazelnot i'm not on your continent but to me it sometimes seems there are two states: California and Jesusland.
I don't want to sound harsh but to an friend who immigrated from the US to my german city I always tell that it was quite beneficial for europe to drop all the religious nutcases, scammers and whackos to the colonies and then forgetting about them fur hundrets or years.
We don't have as many religions / cults / systematic scams as the US does. Not even close.