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<DIV>Charles Brown says: "T"he U.S. started out with capitalism, and
bourgeois,Protestant revolt<BR>against the feudal, centralized
church.<BR><BR>So, in the U.S. , religion is the party punch, instead of the
opiate, for<BR>the masses."</DIV>
<DIV>Comment: I thought historical analysis, especially of the Marxist kind,
tell us that, at least for the South ,the US started with a mix of Slavery and
the feudal Plantation system, where religion was used pretty much as the opiate
of the slaves.</DIV>
<DIV>Cristobal Senior</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>