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Politics : Evolution
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To: Solon who wrote (23396)3/24/2012 2:35:59 PM
From: 2MAR$1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
"Much of it derives from an anti-intellectualism rooted in biblical nonsense. It is a form of "WISHCRAFT" !
"Americans are suspicious of and resent intellectuals, even while benefiting from their output. This negativity goes back to the Puritans. They had a piety that deemed us all "worthless sinners" and rejected anyone being puffed up with their own merit "

Its so true even still today but thats changing rapidly right before our eyes and its no wishcraft . When the struggle for survival is so strong & competition so great on every side between man & man / man & nature combined , there's time only enough for the simplest inherited stories of "invisible forces" . Emellished upon represented first as the forces of nature themselves & the Sun /Moon and powerful animals , later taking on idol status with the semi~human & human impersonations of Egyptian & Greek , these later idolizations distill naturally down to the final

"WE were created in God's image "

* When Ben Franklyn died who was perhaps as much a single force for winning our revolution (or George Washington would have been fighting with bows & arrows ) it was the French that nationally mourned him universally as a nation & celebrated his life as one of their own greatest heros . American scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, and philosopher plus a healthy interest in the ladies .... were always a combination of qualities that would arouse suspicion from those pious pulpits of the day . So it was the French that gave him the most honor and from peasant to king all held him with highest esteem .
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