[lbo-talk] The atheist delusion

[John Thornton]

Jack Stewart wrote:
> John Thornton wrote:
>   
>> Religion tends to be seen as an external immutable truth and people who 
>> have a preference for such a viewpoint are drawn to it.
>>   
>>     
> The problem with that answer is that it provides no cause and effect.   
> It seems to me that you are saying Europeans are just different than 
> U.S. citizens for some unknown reason.  My answer may be very weak, or 
> maybe only a partial answer, but at least it provides a material reason 
> - other than genetics.

I'm not trying to explain why fewer Europeans than American's are fundies.
I'm saying that fundies are people who like binary yes and no, good and 
bad, black and white answers.
There are plenty of powerful fundies in the US so lack of power seems 
not be correlated to fundamentalism.
Show me a fundie who enjoys relativistic nuanced answers and you'll be 
showing me something very rare indeed.
Now why, if it's true, American culture breeds people who prefer 
definitive binary answers to questions than Europe breeds I don't know 
nor have I sought to explain.

John Thornton