On 3/4/2014 1:22 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I think my point was that I get rather tired of the knee jerk, all
> politicians, lawyers, real estate agents, (insert bete noir of choice) are
> evil grasping self-serving spawn of satan yadda yadda….
> Too easy, too dangerous and most of the time just plain damn wrong.
And yet, you feel comfortable tarring all of the US with one brush.
On 3/3/2014 1:11 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Tell that to an atheist.
You seem to have a tendency to reduce a huge country with a vast array of
different sub-cultures to a monolith of fools.
Where I live, in the circles I frequent, and in similar circles I know of in
many other of the more civilized parts of
the US, being an atheist is not even worth commenting on. Out in the larger
social and commercial world where I have
lived and worked all my adult life, I can't recall anyone ever making an issue
of any particular religion or non-religion.
For women, in particular, which seems to me to be where this started, many
mainstream religions here are completely
gender blind. I know a few women ministers and a candidate as close friends.
They have never mentioned to me or my wife
any hint of feeling oppressed or 'less than' males in their churches.
It even seems that some denominations may soon be predominantly run by women.
In that sense, the contrast to the situation of women in some Muslim countries
is pretty great. Perhaps AG should have
been more specific in his comment. Given the image that prompted it, though ...
On 3/4/2014 3:04 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I'd rather think the best of people first, while also remembering that they
> are merely human too and that there are very few saints.
Oh my! Might that apply to my fellow USians, as well?
Moose
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