religious crackpots in public life, was Re: The heart of a leftist

[Charles Brown]

Here's an old hypothesis. Religion is sigh of the oppressed creature, heart of a heartless condition. It is the opium of the people. Maybe Americans are  more oppressed or depressed than the news lets on, living in the most heartless conditions , in need of an opiating painkiller.

CB


>>> michael at ecst.csuchico.edu 07/07/00 07:11PM >>>
Fundamentalism is associated with fear.


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> Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > Seems odder than, say, Canada and Mexico, to pick two nearby
> > examples. Both have richer political cultures, as far as I can tell,
> > and fewer religious crackpots in public life.
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> Any hypotheses as to why the U.S. should be so uniquely plagued by
> religiosity? One can understand it in Iran and some other Islamic nations as
> a reaction to western imperialism. But why in the U.S.?
> 
> Carrol
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