RE: Oh, Dear....Someone Will Have to Tell Sarah Palin!
October 9, 2013 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2013 at 11:19 pm by Airyaman.)
(October 8, 2013 at 1:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Clearly you haven't understood American Exceptionalism.I don't, I'm a skeptic. That's just not about gods.
(October 8, 2013 at 3:22 pm)Chas Wrote: There was a report on the news this morning on this. They floated a couple of "why is this" questions. Notably absent was the fact that of the countries compared, the U.S. is the most religious.
We want to see the correlation, but our culture is much more than bible-believers who do other stuff.
If I had to make a quick guess as to why we are behind others, I would say it is arrogance. I think we believe that everyone else wants to be like us Americans with our freedom, our music, our Hollywood, Facebook, Twitter, etc. ad nauseum. Seriously, many of us think the world revolves around the US.
When you think you are number #1 you can do two things: rest on your laurels, or constantly improve so you can stay in first. I think we've gone for the former option.
