Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (77664)	10/14/2004 11:12:01 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 793843

In the US, nobody puts you in jail nor gives you a fine if you do business on a religious holiday. That's because we have freedom of religion here. Unlike members of the British Commonwealth, which still have state religion? Too lazy to google, I am headed up to bed for my next installment of the third book of Neal Stephenson's "Confusion of Confusions" trilogy. Lots of state religion in that one, too, but it is set in the late 17th-early 18th century, when people were fighting to the death over religion. We don't do that here anymore, we started this country to get away from all that. There are religious types who want to tell everybody else what to do, but there are so many of them that they tend to cancel each other out, and we also have lots of atheists and secular humanists, too.