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On 10/16/2011 6:30 AM, Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott<sel### [at] npgcable com> 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.
>
There are some people here that theorize that this is precisely
"because" of the separation thing. Basically, if one group of complete
nuts run things, and into the ground enough, then it tend to inoculate
everyone else against them. If you limit that power, such that the
problems they create are minor, petty, or only effect small numbers of
people, the default assumption for most is that **their** crazy assed
belief system wouldn't do the same thing, if *it* was the one trying to
pass minor, petty, laws, which only effect a relatively small number of
*other* people.
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