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Which is not necessarily to say that a majority of citizens in said countries are even religious.
As an example, in Australia (where I currently live), Christianity leads, but over time is losing out badly to 'none' and 'undeclared.' What's more, evangelism as we experience it in the US never caught on here, and religious Australians are not wont to wear their religion on their sleeves (perhaps they actually read their bibles).
In a generation, the majority of Australians will be nonreligious or effectively so. Something similar is happening in traditionally Catholic and/or Protestant Europe.
Admittedly, Americans have traditionally been more godstruck than their European counterparts, but the same decline of Christianity seems to be underway in the States as well. And while we still have an electorate that punishes any politician who doesn't profess at least somewhat fervent (and generally Christian) faith, this is fading too.
I'd argue that we've never been close to a theocracy, even at the height of the Moral Majority's fame. I say this because the number of actual clergymen with power (as opposed to their tools in politics) was never high enough to result in the imposition of the Baptist equivalent of Sharia Law (the 'theonomy' mentioned by another poster here).
Which is not to say that a huge amount of damage wasn't done (continues to be done) under the banner of Christianity. It's just that they never came that close, IMO, to actually taking over.
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