I will try to make a serious point amidst my laughter.

Surely this survey explains alot about the simplicity of thinking and the extreme backwardness of the american public.

Americans seem to want everything to be black and white... no reality or truth..just keep things simple.

I also find it extremely funny that more americans believe in Hell than Heaven... thus confirming that the US is a land of fear and hatred.

I would love to see a comparative study done in Europe.. i wouldnt expect more than 10% of europeans to say they believed in such stone age, superstitious simplicities.

Very revealing indeed.


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Retard Alert, Retard Alert.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

He believes there is no moral up or down.

Yet he pontificates on what is upside down.

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I support homosexuality because it keeps liberals from breeding.

I support abortion because it keeps liberals from having children.

I support public education because it keeps liberal children pliable, unthinking and easily lead.

I support euthanasia because old sick liberals aren't worth paying for.

I support welfare because liberals will not eat if they displease me.

How do you like me now?

The devil is red and has horns and God has a big long white beard.

May you burn in hell when I am floating on my fluffy cotton cloud.

Yes I agree..believing in Heaven and Hell is retarded... however i wouldnt go so far as accusing Jesus freaks of being retards... that is a severe slur upon the mentallly ill!

Look, RGS can learn!

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THAT was good. Can I use it sometime? *smirk*

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If you can't laugh at tragedy then the tragedy will only weigh you down and keep you from moving on. - A KittenKoder Original (I hope)

Role Playing Games are for fun, to be enjoyed and tell stories, the dice are just there to keep your hands busy. - KittenKoder

Going to war over religion is basically killing each other to see who has the better imaginary friend. - Richard Jeni

Religious people really don't know much about religion. - Bill Mahar

You seem like a reasonable fellow in many of your posts there MC...

Why would you start a pointless thread like this one? Are you trying to piss Americans off? Are you sure you want to do that?

-Joe

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It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

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So what you're saying is: you object to societies using imagery to pass along their culture in an age when only 10% of the population could afford a lettered education.

If you asked the overwhelming masses of Christian thinkers throughout the ages if the thought of God as having a beard or Heaven being only a cloud they would dismiss the idea just as quickly as they would dismiss the idea that the throne of Heaven was actually a bejeweled chair. It seems your rage is based on you not being able to understand the simplest of concepts.

But none of this belies the fact that you are the archtypical, self-contradicitng moralizing amoralist.

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I support homosexuality because it keeps liberals from breeding.

I support abortion because it keeps liberals from having children.

I support public education because it keeps liberal children pliable, unthinking and easily lead.

I support euthanasia because old sick liberals aren't worth paying for.

I support welfare because liberals will not eat if they displease me.

How do you like me now?

So true. I never trust a poll, and another good reason is to learn about Frank Luntz.

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All things in moderation and reality.

If you can't laugh at tragedy then the tragedy will only weigh you down and keep you from moving on. - A KittenKoder Original (I hope)

Role Playing Games are for fun, to be enjoyed and tell stories, the dice are just there to keep your hands busy. - KittenKoder

Going to war over religion is basically killing each other to see who has the better imaginary friend. - Richard Jeni

Religious people really don't know much about religion. - Bill Mahar

Is the US up to 11% yet?

The point is that the US has enough brainwashed uneducated thickoes like yourself (despite the extremely superficial pseudo theorising)... that the nation has become nothing more than a dictatorship in the hands of the very few.

What other nation would fall so easily for fear and hate politics? Certainly no first world nation. However because the US has so many untravelled, uneducated, simplistic people.... once again revealed by this poll's results...the few can control the masses and do exactly what they like.

That's interesting. It's a sort of Brunerian spiral curriculum. Literalism might have worked 2000 and more years ago but we've learned more and we don't need the basical literal model any more.

How do you explain fundamentalists?

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It's a plutocracy. Just don't tell the ruled, they don't like it.

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Blowhards-R-Us

And YET, your Country went right along with us, GO FIGURE.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

It's imagery. Iconography. EVERY society, even modern ones, even secular societies, use it.

Don't believe me? Go grab a Soviet propaganda poster, I'm sure you have a few within arms reach. But the fact remains while images make larger concepts mentally digestable, nobody is dumb enough--except you it seems--to think the Bible describes God as a physical being.

You sound pretty fearful and hateful...all without the fluffy clouds and red pajamas.

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I support homosexuality because it keeps liberals from breeding.

I support abortion because it keeps liberals from having children.

I support public education because it keeps liberal children pliable, unthinking and easily lead.

I support euthanasia because old sick liberals aren't worth paying for.

I support welfare because liberals will not eat if they displease me.

How do you like me now?