(June 9, 2010 at 9:00 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: I didn't say the U.S. is a theocracy... just that we came closer to being one than the U.K., which was an exaggeration meant to imply that we have a lot of powerful religious groups here that have far too much influence in the policy making aspects of our government. Evangelicals and lunatic fundies have way too much power here. It's actually frightening.
Ah.I misread
There are certainly some parts of the US in which I would not like to live. Our bible belt is in Queensland,which also has a disproportionate number of scams and conmen. It was was also the home of Australia's version Huey 'Kingfisher Long, Joh Bejelke Peterson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen
It's ironic about religious dominance in American after the trouble Thomas Jefferson went to keep church and state separate. The First Amendment was a world first and does in fact guarantee freedom FROM religion as much as freedom OF religion.
Tangent: did you know the US was the first county on earth to grant equal citizenship to Jews?* (from independence)
*source; documentary; 'The American Future; A History by Simon Schama'
