religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom

[Deepthunk]

Oh, sorry about that, I designed it that way to draw attention to what he said, but I've been meaning to change it anyway. I have it made with other graphics and other sigs I could toss in there, I'll see what I can do.

On a side note, if flashing colored lights give you headaches you should actually get that checked out, it could be a sign of epilepsy, ( for real, i'm not being sarcastic, if your not just joking you should check with a neurologist, that is a symptom of epilepsy).

I was joking. I already had a headache, at the time (I build custom motorcycles, so I spend a lot my my day looking at the flare of a TIG welder, which is still really bright through the lens), hammering and grinding loudly on metal sheets, and in general trying to give myself a headache. But the flashing did hurt my eyes, because of the headache, and made it worse.

It's just so distracting that it made it hard to focus on what you said in your post, which is, I think, counter to your purpose in making it flash. If it's so annoying that someone doesn't even want to look at it, then they're less likely to read either your post or our signature. That I did is just a reflection on the fact that I'm roughly as curious as the proverbial cat.

well, that fixes the flashing, I'll leave that one for now and come up with something better to put there later

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You have to keep in mind that America is about the only Western country at least partially bordering on a christian theocracy. These things are virtually unknown in post war Europe.

I was starting to think I was the only person in the country that noticed that. The press tells us over and over that were a free and democratic nation, but both of the two reigning political parties are militantly religious and the religious demographics of our elected officials in washington don't even come close to matching the religious demographics of the populace. twenty percent of the country is religiously "unaffiliated" (which actually means agnostic, but most people don't know that), but there's only one token member of congress and no senators that are unaffiliated which is a fraction of one percent, and the political parties unilaterally choose which candidates will be viable and which wount.

I think what we have in this country is more closely akin to a theocratic autocracy than a democratic republic.