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Articles not intended to start fat-wars again.
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Originally posted by purse junkie
Particularly in light of articles like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/13/in...13CHUR.html?hp . (Spree: Europeans becoming secular, Americans are really religious). The idea that American public policy is so clearly affected by religious dogma is horrifying to me--I know maybe one person who even goes to church at all, and they keep their yap shut about it to everyone else like most Europeans I know. And the level of nutbag apocalyptic proselytizing I've sometimes encountered in my US travels--and the number of people who really seem to believe the Earth is 5000 years old and the lie of evolution shouldn't be taught in school--is truly frightening. How the hell can I feel remotely connected to these folks (and vice-versa)?
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My Lord, where do you thing religious dogma came from? If you are so sure that it didn't come from a booming voice in the sky (and I'd *generally* agree), then isn't it present by some sort of consent of the boundees? We are only governed and dogmatized by consent.
That said, I agree with the question "[h]ow the hell can I feel remotely connected to these folks", though the question could just as easily apply for other reasons to 95% of the U.S. population.
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