Things often start for one reason and continue for another. Its a disease passed on from parents to their children.
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Why is America so religious?
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That's a film I've still not been able to watch right through. Every time I see it, my heart weeps.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (December 6, 2011 at 10:41 am)Napoleon Wrote:(December 6, 2011 at 9:49 am)Heather Wrote: Apparently, because God has blessed us more than any other nation... LMAO... Take THAT England... What a great jpg! 
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
 Quote:Most countries which have the highest standard of living are becoming increasing secular and less religious Affluence in the US seems pretty uneven. Just a guess,but I suspect the demographics remain much the same;the poorer and less educated,the more extreme religosity. EG As far as I'm aware, the US bible belt is not known for either its affluence or plethora of intellectuals.   (December 6, 2011 at 7:31 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That's a film I've still not been able to watch right through. Every time I see it, my heart weeps.Exactly this. I was about to say the same thing. I still haven't been able to watch that all the way through. Every time I watch it, it just makes me so angry inside. I think it should be classified as a horror film. It is seriously the scariest movie I've ever seen.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife  
RE: Why is America so religious?
December 7, 2011 at 8:19 am
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"A man who keeps one eye on the past is blind in one eye. A man who ignores the past is blind in both."
 RE: Why is America so religious?
December 7, 2011 at 8:26 am
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(December 6, 2011 at 7:14 pm)aleialoura Wrote: Things often start for one reason and continue for another. Its a disease passed on from parents to their children. Wow, the 1.49mins i watched made for incredibly uncomfortable watching, sickening to do that to kids. Is this how people find god? By being forced to, i always thought you were meant to find 'him' on your own. Let them make their own minds up, not fuck them up. I think i'm right in stating that America is religious because of the early Puritan settlers and other protestant pilgrims, you also have to realise that America has is having a massive growth of Catholic hispanics as well.  (December 6, 2011 at 7:14 pm)aleialoura Wrote: Things often start for one reason and continue for another. Its a disease passed on from parents to their children. This is the kind of thing why people say things like "Americans are all mental", "Americans live in their own dream world" In the UK even the very religious aern't anywhere near as mental in general. I'm not trying to make the UK sound superior but I don't think many British people are stupid enough to be taken in by the likes of Peter Popoff over here. Having said that I still remember in school a woman teacher screaming at a girl who must have been only about 7 for not saying her prayers in assembly.  RE: Why is America so religious?
December 7, 2011 at 9:48 am
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(December 6, 2011 at 7:14 pm)aleialoura Wrote: Things often start for one reason and continue for another. Its a disease passed on from parents to their children. It's voodoo. It's mental manipulation, mass hypnosis, of the worst kind. At least with waterboarding everybody involved knows it's wrong. When I was 6 (I am the eldest of 4) my parents sent me to Sunday School. Not because they were religious, but because it was convenient to have me out of their hair on Sunday afternoons, ;-), and I would be with lots of other kids. That was the theory. But after the first Sunday School class I (6 years old) came home bawling my guts out "HE DIED FOR US, HE DIED FOR US" as if the world had ended! My parents, as you would expect, were shocked and never let me go there again. But that was half a century ago. One would expect that the world had progressed since then, wouldn't one? But is hasn't. (December 7, 2011 at 8:19 am)AnunZi Wrote: EXCELLENT! 
 (December 7, 2011 at 8:46 am)Xavier Wrote: This is the kind of thing why people say things like "Americans are all mental", "Americans live in their own dream world" I'm ashamed to think about it but there is a substantial portion of our population that does live in an alternate reality. It's at least 1/3rd, possibly more. Radical right wing propaganda radio, Fox Spews and Fox-lite (aka CNN) have created a segment of the population that is so badly out of touch that even as a former conservative I don't understand them. Quote:I'm not trying to make the UK sound superior but I don't think many British people are stupid enough to be taken in by the likes of Peter Popoff over here. 15 years ago, during the 90s, if you'd told me what was going to happen in the next decade, I'd have said you were crazy. Americans would never stand for it... or so I thought. Never underestimate the power of propaganda. It can happen anywhere. England certain had its history of religious nuttery. Protestants and Catholics were killing each other over how to properly worship their imaginary friend. You got over that and hopefully we will too. Mostly, it's the older generation that's the problem, so I still have hope for the future.
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