On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:33:26 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Pharyngula has been running stuff recently from people on "Why I am an
> atheist". One of the recent entries is from someone in Mississippi.
> Doesn't say that its "dangerous" per-say to be one, but definitely
> damned inconvenient, if they ever came out and said so. I would argue
> that there are probably a "few" places in some of those states where
> "inconvenient" goes a bit beyond just not having anyone at all listen to
> anything you ever say, or the like. There are some real nuts in this
> country, more so even than the people running for office, and, pretty
> much by definition, such people are scared to death of being alone, so
> they tend to congregate all in one place. This means either clubs (if in
> larger cities), but little opportunity to really hurt anyone, or,
> possibly, whole bloody towns, in places where the "law" is one of their
> own members.

Absolutely - it's hard to even generalise about a region or even a small 
town.

Jim

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