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Originally Posted by Plan9
Fast forward to the United States in 2009... God has been killed off and replaced by cold hard cash, fake tits, and TeeVee.
This thread addresses a single symptom and not the disease: powerful people behaving badly and their henchmen, at whatever scale and of whatever knowledge, doing their bidding. War doesn't change even if the flavor-of-the-conflict motivation does.
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god is alive and well in America, otherwise we would not have so many people arguing creationism, prayer in schools, "intelligent design" and all that. Look how many asshole preachers are on teevee asking for money. Palin stood in church a few years back and said that god wanted alaska to build a natural gas pipeline. Bush said that god put him in the oval office. Reagan was the first president to allow the vatican city to build an embassy in DC. thousands of children were systematically raped by priests and how many of those assholes are sitting in jail? Very few. Their religious status protected them from prosecution. If you owned a series of day care centers that raped one hundredth of the children that the church raped, do you think that you would not be sitting in jail? But do it under the guise of religion and you walk away. That is the power of religion in America.