[lbo-talk] Re: agnostic nation?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

FS:
> face it, kids, with or without ridiculous polls, most americans are, or
> would call themselves, christians...the god squad, whether its jewish,
> muslim, or whatever else, needs to wake up and smell the superstitious
> majority...many believe in scriptural legend and mythology, and many who
> call themselves agnostic and secular and even atheist secretly, if not
> openly, carry out religious policy nonsense( how did the "holy land"
> become so?  secular, study group discussion? agnostic democratic
> referendum?)  while smugly looking down on other, more open
> believers...but the facts are the facts...
> 
> doesn't make me happy, but neither does much else about where i
> live...still, no reason to create fabrications about reality, to make
> some people feel better, or superior...for once, that schmuck was
> right...

Amen!  Scotty, you are my friend :)

The most scary aspect of the US religiosity is not that it is theistic - for
most who identify themselves as Christians in this country are fundamentally
incapable of comprehending complex and abstract ideas, including that of a
"supreme being."  For the most part, it is an expression of groupthink,
cheap sentimentality and the infantile desire to be taken care of by someone
more powerful and wiser than oneself.  

Any questioning of the idea of deity is not seen by these earnest oafs as a
philosophical or spiritual inquiry, let alone expressions of existential
angst, but an attempt to snatch away the mental crutch on which their feeble
egos are leaning.  That is why atheists and unbelievers are seen as cruel
and evil people, the same crowd that would beat up a handicapped person or
steal social security check from an old lady.

Wojtek