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In reply to the discussion: I wish you wouldn't force your beliefs on me! [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 1, 2012, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)
What about the jolly old 1st Amendment. The problem atheists have in America is that not too many people are listening. Maybe that's because, like the fundie preachers, too many are blowhards. In the UK and Europe, most folk are done with taking beliefs systems and other -isms seriously.
BTW, you don't have to grow up in a country to have an idea what it's like. Raising kids, having several born again family members and living in the bible belt gives many clues as to what it is like. Pretty fucking freaky, and I sympathize with all who suffer it. However, not all go through a "Carrie" type experience, as not all who grow up in 3rd world Muslim countries become jihadists. I have lived in a 3rd world Muslim country and never saw anything close to the fundamentalism I've witnessed here.