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In reply to the discussion: Salon: The United States is scarier than the Islamic State [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)25. Yes. Hundreds of laws. Religious extremism is thriving in America.
... with all the primitive thinking about human rights, the role of women in society and insistence on pre-scientific views of the physical world that entails.
I fell into some Internet hole today where people were talking about "the biggest lie you ever believed." There was a striking number of responses from people brought up in fundamentalist Christian schools who were taught that "fossils are a lie planted by Satan," and that there used to be an "extra canopy of oxygen" on the earth that allowed people to live for hundreds of years. In their private-school SCIENCE class. They literally had to unlearn these things to accept what most of us would think of as basic objective reality.
I read too that the PP clinic in Colorado, which is still closed due to the shootings there, *already has protesters* hanging plastic baby dolls in the trees and screaming at anyone who walks near.
We cannot be like this. Reason cannot be an option people can subscribe to or not. I don't know how proud we can be that we are not beheading apostates in the public square or selling women to soldiers, simply because the people pushing us in those directions have not gotten us all the way there yet.
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To be fair, those bakers in the US who refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings are terrifying (nt)
Nye Bevan
Dec 2015
#7
I would think that the people that live in the numerous nations that the US has bombed
cpwm17
Dec 2015
#13
I was able to select from at least 10 different cheeseburger vendors
Facility Inspector
Dec 2015
#70
And yet we and other countries are taking tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Isis.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2015
#36
Our government's conduct is responsible for more problems in the world than terrorism.
ronnie624
Dec 2015
#37
Those foolish refugees don't know fear from safety! To be decent people we should sent them back
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2015
#55
Anti gay violece is far more common than anti Muslim violence, always has been and DU will never
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2015
#56