(December 11, 2018 at 1:07 pm)Amarok Wrote: The Dutch Church opposed them all and lost and have stayed pretty quite .In America the religious right lobby is in full gear to repeal it .
I find it ironic that European countries have state sponsored religions with secular societies while America threw religion out into the street where the mind virus seems to have evolved into an aggressive and virulent strain.
I theorize that where religion is fat, protected and given a subsidy, it has no incentive to find ways to gain popular appeal and therefore support. Give American fundy churches their due, they know how to market themselves, don't they? So all the boring churches died out and the ones that knew how to appeal grew to fill the market niche.
To my European freethinkers who resent their tax dollars supporting an institution they don't believe in, just think of it as a small price to pay for an inoculation against the mind-virus of religion and witness across the pond what can happen without it.
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