RE: Mississippi wants Bible as the official state book
January 22, 2015 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 3:37 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 22, 2015 at 11:00 am)Xeno Wrote: That was only the most recent one on the long list of reasons.
They wear their shoes in the house. That's the main one.
I see.
We'll miss you, I'm sure.
(January 22, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Well, it's not just the one state, is it? I read the other day about a town in Texas, I think it was, that put an official ordinance on the books that god was the owner of the town.
Oh, that town in Alabama? Yeah, pretty nutty decision. Might surprise you to learn that many Americans, including folks in Alabama, think just as well as you do that it's stupid.
(January 22, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Religiosity is just crazy high in America, and displayed in much more ostentatious ways, than in other countries. It's something I've definitely noticed upon moving here; I pass by three churches just going to the store up the road. It's crazy, compared to what I'm used to.
Don't get me wrong, I like America, but it is an adjustment when compared to Australia.
We're certainly more religious than Australia, but selecting an extreme example, such as this, and then imputing it to the other forty-nine state governments, when none of the others have done anything near this silly, doesn't seem very reasonable to me.
Generalizations suck. You guys should know better, ffs.
(January 22, 2015 at 1:03 pm)abaris Wrote: But you have to take into consideration how alien most of the so called American way of life is to most parts of the western world. I'm not talking about the big coastal hubs like New York. LA or San Francisco, but about the vast countryside and southern cities. Apart from the religiosity it's also the more mundane things we would worry about. Such as not having universal health care, but a system where you pay heavily just for the very real chance of your insurance company dropping you in the gutter.
I like to visit the US, but I wouldn't move there unless for a very high paid job. Slim chance for that, by the way.
Fair points -- although the big coastal cities are just as American as the heartland.
Think about it, when some asshole comes on here ranting about European socialism hurr durr, what do you guys feel? What do you think? It's just as obnoxious when it's sent out as when it's received.
