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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: peter michaelson who wrote (149787)11/12/2010 1:06:29 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 541518
 
I think it's genetic. The Europeans got rid of their religious radicals by sending them here, and here they bred. That would explain why Europe got so much more secular and we have folks running around who want religious government.

Another explanation might be the Europeans saw what religious states could do, and they got tired of the mayhem.

Or maybe bilingual people are just smarter- and the Europeans have a lot more bilingual people. Not only is the bilingual brain better in youth, but apparently it withstands Alzheimer's better too.

But any way you slice it, I wish America was a lot more secular, and had fewer people wishing to use the mechanism of the state to bolster their belief systems. I don't care what people believe, I just don't want to be bothered by their beliefs.
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