Religious Resignation

[Occhidiangela]

My God, are you really ignorant, or are you just for fun trying to not understand my post?.

No to both.

The world is bigger than the USA,

NO kidding, I've seen quite a bit of it. I'd consider seeing more but quite frankly, I'm good and damned tired of moving, don't care for air travel anymore (tired of being treated like a sheep and a criminal on my dime) and at the moment, not interested in wasting my dollars on anyone outside my homeland. My dreams of one day seeing India, Kashmir, taking my wife to Turkey, going to Bali for a vacation, and finally getting to Chile are on indefinite hold. Now that my sister no longer lives in France, I'll not travel there again. Ireland is pretty much the only remaining part of Europe I have a burning desire to see before I die.

say hijacked christianity I don't mean the whole religion, I mean creating an atmosphere in which you connect being a good christian and patriot with voting for a certain party/candidate.

Then say what you mean and stop using asinine sound bytes created by someone else. Why you consider that particular association odius says a hell of a lot more about you than it does about the GOP in America. Politics is about group identity, and creating the symbol of a large enough "we" do out vote "they" when an election arises. Oh, wait, there are no political parties in Europe *rolls eyes so hard forehead cracks* so you'd have no idea how voting blocs are formed.

(The US doesn't even officially exist...it is not in the bible at least):)

Back to dumbacity again, right on schedule.

And as a reply to Kandrathe : I am not sure that statistic takes into account the grade of religious, in many western countries people that are asked say they are religious even if they never go to church, or behave in way the bible tells them. I am talking about the more fanatic ones. And before getting into a discussion about fanaticness. I think the Bush administration succesfully pulled 10% (maybe more) of voters to the GOP because of their religious and patriotic claims.

FWIW: last I checked, the Evangelical voting bloc was estimated at 15-20%, but once again, the depth of religious practice varies greatly here, as does the variation between the hundreds of sects and denominations in America. Example: the Episcopalian Chruch seems to have had a schism over the ordination of some homosexual clergymen (about a year and a half ago). They are a lot more old school/European style Christianity than the Pentacostals and Evangelicals.

Back to Occhi: O and for the swearing; I dn't know who you want to impress but I am dutch and not like you from texas (you know where it is allright to keep women and children prisoner to procreate (because it is religion)

That'll cost you, boy.

but where every half swear on TV is beeped away), so if you want to make a statement through swearing you have to come up with more than that.

When you achieve coherence, try again.

However, I suggest you stop behaving like this and look at your signature before posting again.

Suggestion noted and flushed down the loo, so it can join its brothers.

Occhi