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Church & State...
What amazes me is that for some reason you believe the USA is the only
"melting pot" on the planet. I beg to differ as Canada is as mixed an ethnic pool as the USA. We have all the religions and a diverse population. You don't see the type of heat generated here as you do with our Southern neighbours. Religious beliefs are tolerated and those who practice it are free to do so to the degree they see fit... within the context of the law. It seems to me that there is a battle going on in the USA to maintain Christian beliefs, English as the language and blind patriotism as the guiding force to the exclusion of all else. Your basis for the USA melting pot theory in comparison to the Europeans just doesn't hold water. The immigration of people into Europe from all over the globe has been and is continuing to change the entire area. It has been doing so for a while. Maybe due to the diverse languages and cultures that lived in close proximity for centuries has provided for easier adaptation and acceptance of other cultures and religions. My point was that the superiority complex exhibited by many Americans does not hold up in the light of day... and much of their supposed generosity has a steep price tag. CM "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... | Dear Scout, | | THe flailing on the highwire is called "re-invention", a | continuing adventure that most outsiders fail to understand. And | it's that very dynamic balancing attempt that really makes the US | "the last, best hope for mankind". And it's no use asking for a | helping hand--almost no-one outside the US understands the | concept of re-invention, and the "hope" side of it they view as | revolting! | | Now watch the piranhas boil in my WC bowl... | | Flying Tadpole | | Scout wrote: | | "Capt. Mooron" wrote | It's pathetic you have even one state like that let alone a bible belt.... | isn't the separation of church & state part of your basic governmental | basis? | | Yes it is. The problem is that line is not always easy for some to see. The | roots of that separation clause are based not so much on the concept that | god and government are mutually exclusive components of a successful | society, but on the history of religious persecution that many | newbie-Americans had endured before coming here. The same world laughing at | us, in large part, is responsible for many of our citizens being here. God | I love irony. | Our founding fathers (your Uncles) believed in the importance of spiritual | responsibility. And why wouldn't they?; if the ostensible benefit of | religion is the promotion of moral behavior, a government would have to be | suicidal to denounce God. It would be counter-productive on just about every | level. But try balancing that with the equally important concept that no one | has the right to say who God is, what s/he/it wants of us (specifically), | what rules it should impose on society at large, how it should influence | national issues, spending, etc. etc. etc., and it's no wonder that we, as a | nation, appear to be constantly imbalanced and unstable, always ready to | fall from the high wire. I'm sure it looks funny from the spectator's | perspective, but that's only because they haven't reached the correct | conclusions about what will happen if that flailing guy falls. I believe the | majority of the world understands our predicament. Though they laugh, they | realize that our fall would start a mosh-pit on a global scale. The laughers | will run, of course, but **** would be flying everywhere (remember when they | blew up that whale on the beach?). | I don't consider us to be a melting pot as much as I do a high-pressure | boiler. We are a smaller version of the whole planet, with no oceans between | us to keep us from fighting. We have it all, people from just about every | culture, religion, ethnicity, tribe, neighborhood, and on and on, with all | that that entails, and we are trying to live together in peace and harmony. | It's gonna take a while to work out the bugs. I'm optimistic, but I think it | will take more than a few hundred years to get it together. If we can't do | it, it won't be any prettier for the rest of the world. How about giving us | a hand? | -- | Scout | "Knowing the storm is coming only makes me more nervous." | | -- | Flying Tadpole | | ------------------------- | Learn what lies below the waves of cyberspace! | http://www.internetopera.netfirms.com |
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