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Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic
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RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic
July 10, 2012 at 11:20 am
(July 10, 2012 at 10:18 am)whateverist Wrote: We suffer from nationalist narcissism.

Don't worry. All countries suffer that to some extent. Some of the eastern european countries that have been released from Soviet oversight are very nationalistic. Britain went through the same exeptionalist period in the 19th century when London was the centre of the world with the empress Victoria at the helm, and "Johnny foreigner" was an inferior beast. Those times are long past as they will be for USA eventually.

I don't know why the USA is so overtly religious since I am not aware of any similar phenomenon in previous countries in a similar position. The best explaination I have heard is that during the cold war religiosity was a way of distinguishing the US from the atheist USSR, and so got a foothold for this reason. Umm . . . maybe . . . but I am not completely convinced.

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Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Whateverist - July 9, 2012 at 3:13 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Reforged - July 9, 2012 at 3:56 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by KichigaiNeko - July 9, 2012 at 6:43 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by pgrimes15 - July 9, 2012 at 7:44 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by pgrimes15 - July 9, 2012 at 8:02 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Zen Badger - July 9, 2012 at 8:30 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by KichigaiNeko - July 10, 2012 at 8:51 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Whateverist - July 9, 2012 at 9:39 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by pgrimes15 - July 9, 2012 at 9:51 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Napoléon - July 9, 2012 at 9:56 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Gambit - July 9, 2012 at 11:05 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Opsnyder - July 9, 2012 at 2:23 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Napoléon - July 9, 2012 at 3:44 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Jackalope - July 9, 2012 at 3:22 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by KnockEmOuttt - July 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Whateverist - July 9, 2012 at 3:49 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Faith No More - July 9, 2012 at 4:09 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Whateverist - July 9, 2012 at 4:19 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Gambit - July 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Voltair - July 9, 2012 at 6:25 pm
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Opsnyder - July 10, 2012 at 3:41 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Gambit - July 10, 2012 at 7:13 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Faith No More - July 10, 2012 at 8:48 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by pgrimes15 - July 10, 2012 at 8:57 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by KichigaiNeko - July 10, 2012 at 8:59 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Faith No More - July 10, 2012 at 8:59 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by pgrimes15 - July 10, 2012 at 9:16 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by KichigaiNeko - July 10, 2012 at 9:22 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by Whateverist - July 10, 2012 at 10:18 am
RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Agnostic - by pgrimes15 - July 10, 2012 at 11:20 am

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