re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, because they are what our Conservatives consider “Western Civilization”: an authoritarian, oligarchic, militaristic theocracy. Only difference is that most of our Conservatives would prefer Protestant Fundamentalism over Russian Orthodoxy.
I got a free book in the mail today, subtitled, ‘Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Great Protestant Reformation’.
Tl/dr