(August 9, 2014 at 4:56 pm)Diablo Wrote:(August 9, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Blackout Wrote: American Christians look so damn ridiculous from Europe, we almost see them as children who need to grow the fuck up.
If I'm not mistaken the US is the most religious out of all western countries, not even Italy is that much religious, and they have the vatican
Americans have always had that childishness about them; simplistic, really.
It is curious that while the US is supposedly the example of democracy, freedom and fundamental rights, they simultaneously have so much trouble regarding freedom of religion AND from religion, secularism and State-Church separation. Hawkins presented an idea to explain this, he said something like 'In Britain religion got boring, but in the US it became trendy and churches are State funded'.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you