Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
> This is simple. The logic is that a) they are going to hell, just look 
> at how much "worse" their economies are, b) just look at all these ( 
> entirely made up) examples of bad laws, and evil things happening in 
> them, c) denial that anything good is happening in those places, and d) 
> an even **bigger** total, and complete, denial that Christians are not 
> the majority religion in the world, or that any place with a lot of 
> churches can "possibly" be non-religious.

  The irony is that most European countries, including the nordic ones,
are technically speaking theocracies. That's because their governments
recognize and endorse an official state church which gets significant
privileges over all other denominations and religions. Their constitutions
do not forbid the governments from endorsing a particular religion (because
they do).

  In contrast, the US is technically speaking a secular government because
its constitution forbids the government from endorsing a particular
religion.

  Yet something like 85% of people in the nordic countries are secular
(and the governments are largely secular), while something like 95% of
people in the US is Christian.

  Life is stranger than fiction.

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                                                          - Warp

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