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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
How can anyone claim that America was founded on Christianity? Amazing. If this lady believes that the native peoples nature religion's are all completely invalid she at least should have the decency to believe in Odin and Thor, etc -
But I dont think this kind of ignorance of religion if an American problem at all. I think it is worse in the UK. I have had people knock on my door trying to convert me who do not even know the bible as well as I do and cannot have a sensible discussion about it.
I supsect that the average English Christian would be clueless about the connections between Islam and Christianity, would have no clue that Jesus was an important prophet of Allah in the Qu'ran and so on.
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On the whole thing about building a mosque next to the WTC... I really dont understand the issue. Maybe since all but one (I believe?) of the terrorists involved in the attacks where Saudi these people should instead put their energy into encouraging the US to boycott Saudi oil? This should have many benefits to the environment as well as allowing them to show their disgust at the 9/11 atrocity.
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From what I hear, you guys don't have the problem with Christian fundamentalism that we do. I think I read a year or two ago that only about 30% of people in the UK who consider themselves religious go to church regularly. Here, there's an honest belief that a move away from White-Christian-dominated culture that pushes religious values on government is tantamount to Christians being systematically persecuted. It's simply not rational.