American conviction in religion has fallen ~20% since 2000 but that still leaves ~60% bought into skywizards as media owned by older more religious intentionally helps peddle Newspeak that obfuscates attempts to bring science to the masses.
"This is something I believe in firmly and will defend my belief in" is not what makes something a religion.
Real religions have tenets, rituals, and beliefs beyond things like "people deserve to be treated well".
Here's mine: at my grandfather's funeral, the head pastor was comfortable enough in himself to start complaining about "cancel culture" in front of everyone while my grandfather's dead body was ten feet away from him.
Everything's so fucked.