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>Then why don't Americans build community based on reality instead of
>misguided beliefs in Santa Claus?
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>I'm flabbergasted at the circle jerk for religion going on here. I have
>to wonder what you all would say if I started defending religious belief
>in creationism as something that helps comfort people.
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So long as you ignore everything that has been said, so long as you
equate religion with its most absurd manifestations, it's going to be
very hard to talk here.
I have been a dues paying member of a Trotskyist party and believe me that before I would go back to that idiotic mumbo jumbo, I _will_ walk into a Quaker congregation or check out the Unitarians. This is not a reflection on Trotsky but on the demented behavior of such political parties in the U.S. I mean you want to talk about absurd ritual and misguided beliefs all rendered in the most obsolete formulaic language imaginable, you can't really do better than such parties.
Joanna