Mixing religion/politics is not what makes a nation work.
Which they did. Opinions simply changed enough over the ensuing decades that a few survivors were permitted to exist, instead.
So what? They were slavers, which means they were monsters. Monsters become no less monstrous when they appear in larger numbers.
Such threads show up all the time.
It came from Europe obviously, just like the religious people themselves.
:dubious: You’re reading the Great Debates forum, which is where religious and political discussions end up.
I would say that America is a little obsessed with God and politics. This is mostly the result of religious nutters using political positions to make the country a worse place.
I would argue that most Americans are not really that religious–they just like to say that they are, and put up a front.
And I’d also argue that the majority of Americans are politically ignorant.
Only a small minority are “obsessed” the way the OP presupposes. Most Americans spend more energy dicking around on their smart phones than thinking about these two topics.
I would love to see some cites supporting this comment. It has all the earmarks of a rectally derived pseudofact.
For your viewing pleasure, I present this map representing Scandinavian-American populations versus this map representing political party percentage by state.
Maybe 100 years ago, or more, but not all that much since WWII.
It is however true that in the Western world no other country has a political landscape peppered with religious undertones as it is in US.
The United States is not engaged in “perpetual war”.
On the contrary, most of the world including the USA has been trending toward greater peace and stability.
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Evidence the Founding Fathers wished every Indian dead? Most of them wanted them “civilized” and (if they were Christian) converted.
BTW what I said above ignored the fact that many Founding Fathers became abolitionists.
And by this logic everybody on Earth until the mid-18th Century or so were “monsters”.
The Western world is not the whole world.
good replies thanks. just wanting an insight.
my current location is religion free. no religion. it is liberating. politics, well they own america in terms of debt. therein lies another gripe. of lies and deceit.
Agreed.
Also fatty food, guns and fast cars.
breatsees not legs? thought you guys were into arse.
We’re more into spellcheck.
And they worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. I heard one of them would not rest until slavery was extinguished.
Because the Mighty Nation of Ameria is infallible?
whaterver floats your boat.
you could be, yes.
you lot have the money, the nous, but don’t necessarily have the brains.
Why are you so concerned about the status of Ameria? The town of Amelia hasn’t used that name since the early middle ages, and is certainly not a world-player today.
I think one big reason Americans pay so much attention to religion and politics together is that one of our two main parties, the Republican Party, exists primarily to favor the short term economic interests of the wealthiest small fraction of the American people. They can’t win elections that way, so they gather together various other factions with intense single issue political interests. This includes “gun nuts”, “birthers” who claim President Obama is not a natural born US citizen and so ineligible to be President, people who deny anthropogenic climate change, and the like. This includes religious people in general and evangelical Christians in particular. Attending church, for example, was a strong predictor that a person would vote for George W. Bush, and a fair predictor that a person would support the use of torture. All of these groups tend to vote Republican against their own economic interests.
We do also like spell checking software, and spelling skills in general, too.