http://theweek.com/article/index/226625/...in-america

Quote: the religious Right's politicization of faith in the 1990s turned younger, socially liberal Christians away from churches, even as conservatives became more zealous. The dropouts were turned off by churches' Old Testament condemnation of homosexuals, premarital sex, contraception, and abortion. The Catholic Church's sex scandals also prompted millions to equate religion with moralistic hypocrisy. "While the Republican base has become ever more committed to mixing religion and politics," Putnam and Campbell write, "the rest of the country has been moving in the opposite direction." As society becomes more secular, researchers say, doubters are more confident about identifying themselves as nonbelievers. "The collapse of institutional religion in the first 10 years of this century [has] freed so many people to say they don't really care," said author Diana Butler Bass.

I think that's still happening today, at least with the Republican Party. The country is moving more moderate or toward the center, and yet in 2012 look at the far-right clowns like Bachmann and Santorum they had trying to get their party's nomination.

(June 11, 2013 at 11:13 am)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote: the religious Right's politicization of faith in the 1990s turned younger, socially liberal Christians away from churches, even as conservatives became more zealous. The dropouts were turned off by churches' Old Testament condemnation of homosexuals, premarital sex, contraception, and abortion. The Catholic Church's sex scandals also prompted millions to equate religion with moralistic hypocrisy. "While the Republican base has become ever more committed to mixing religion and politics," Putnam and Campbell write, "the rest of the country has been moving in the opposite direction." As society becomes more secular, researchers say, doubters are more confident about identifying themselves as nonbelievers. "The collapse of institutional religion in the first 10 years of this century [has] freed so many people to say they don't really care," said author Diana Butler Bass.

I keep telling my brother he needs to get his boss down here and do something.....part a sea or something....kick start it up again

...and don't think it will be any different next time.

Um... how stupid do you have to be to get a malpractice suit as an eye doctor? I mean, it's not hard to say, "Number 1 or number 2... number 1 or number 2.... number 3 or number 4... 3, or 4..." Even if you totally screw up someone's glasses prescription, you can just redo it.

I'm not saying that ophthalmologists have easy jobs, but an eye doctor visit isn't invasive like surgery. You'd have to prescribe the wrong eye drops or something to get sued. It's not like you'd amputate the wrong limb or remove the wrong organ, or do something totally stupid like the three stooges eye poke.

(June 11, 2013 at 12:55 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Um... how stupid do you have to be to get a malpractice suit as an eye doctor? I mean, it's not hard to say, "Number 1 or number 2... number 1 or number 2.... number 3 or number 4... 3, or 4..." Even if you totally screw up someone's glasses prescription, you can just redo it.

I'm not saying that ophthalmologists have easy jobs, but an eye doctor visit isn't invasive like surgery. You'd have to prescribe the wrong eye drops or something to get sued. It's not like you'd amputate the wrong limb or remove the wrong organ, or do something totally stupid like the three stooges eye poke.

You are thinking of an optician, ophthalmologists do operate on eyes.

(June 11, 2013 at 12:55 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Um... how stupid do you have to be to get a malpractice suit as an eye doctor? I mean, it's not hard to say, "Number 1 or number 2... number 1 or number 2.... number 3 or number 4... 3, or 4..." Even if you totally screw up someone's glasses prescription, you can just redo it.

I'm not saying that ophthalmologists have easy jobs, but an eye doctor visit isn't invasive like surgery. You'd have to prescribe the wrong eye drops or something to get sued. It's not like you'd amputate the wrong limb or remove the wrong organ, or do something totally stupid like the three stooges eye poke.

Maybe it was the eye chart he used?