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Politics : World Affairs Discussion
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To: lorne who wrote (2801)10/6/2003 4:35:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) of 3959
 
Footnote:

Cultural and Religious differences between Europe and America would be accelerated during the XXIst century. Despite the fact that many of the same differences existed previously, the political division seemed to focus the mindsets of the people on their differences. European and American Religious Customs had grown quite far apart by this time. In Europe, for example, televangelists were not allowed to broadcast. In America, however televangelism was apple pie. The European preferred to use his reason to deal with religious matters as opposed to the American insistence upon relying on faith only. There were also differing views and rules about waging war.

The time of educated persons speaking both French and American English had come to a close, furthering the distrust of one another. The Europeans looked upon Americans as barbarous and uneducated, while Americans typically viewed Europe as the womb of all heresies. George W. Bush himself (with the aid of his advisors) was a catalyst of anti-European sentiment in America. Angered by being left-out of the last council at Nicea (December 2000 [*]), he wrote of the evils he perceived in the canons of the council: “’…it is not surprising that streams which spring up in boastfulness and vainglory should come together in one filthy pond of hell…we are compelled to unite against these errors, in the hope that the spineless enemy from the East may be repelled in the West.” Technocracy from both Europe and America realized the absurdity of the statements being made by an illiterate ruler with little or no ideological expertise, and so he was mostly ignored. However, G.W. Bush was an influential man nonetheless, and his actions would later prove to further divide the West over the infamous Deoque issue (to be discussed later)
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[*] news.bbc.co.uk

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