re: #144 freetoken

I just read all eight comments. Particularly good is the “0.6% of americans are atheists.” You can hear the dismissive bile against Atheists in that one, dripping with venom, and served up with a dash of poison for relish.

I am frankly amazed at America’s crushing grip on Religion in public and private life. I am amazed because it used to be a sensible and advanced country. In fact, it used to be the most advanced country in the entire world. Everyone looked up to America for technology and science. American innovation in these sectors was unparalleled. But in recent years, it is as if the Morlocks have come back from the darkness from whence they were banished for a while.

Scientists used to be looked up to during the Cold War. Now, scientists are a group of anti-American conspirators to the average brainless idiot in the street. Doctors are seen as liars about cures and treatments and are apparently only out to make money. Astronomers apparently want to “take down God”, as do biologists, neurologists, and any other kind of medical and scientific “-ologist” there is. Geologists apparently know absolutely nothing about their own line of work, or are there only to put forward an Atheistic and, more importantly, “Communist” agenda.

When people refer to the religious upsurge of morons in the United States as “The Christian Taliban”, they are far more correct than they realize. There was another place in the world which also was far more advanced in the 1950’s than it is today - Afghanistah and Pakistan. There, too, education was far different sixty years ago than it is today. And there too we see exactly what happens when religious delinquents are allowed to take over and dominate the conversation. And that is exactly where our country is headed, and bloody fast too (my currently living in France notwithstanding, America still is my country).

The mere fact that religious commentary dominates politics so pervasively today speaks volumes about the descent of this country. Obama isn’t destroying America - these religious fanatics are. And just like Pakistan and Afghanistan, it isn’t going to get better until these morons are out of power, out of a job, and laughed at and mocked in every corner of the world.

I really do apologize to the religious people on the board who aren’t fanatics, but it is fairly clear to me that things have progressed far beyond rational discussion with the other side.

At least, that’s my opinion from (currently) across the pond. Being a total American, however, I think that I have more than a right to express my utter dismay and shock at how far things have gone.