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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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ok so.
In my humble opinion: "people governing themselves without the overriding and overwhelming, pervasive and insidious nature of religion influencing every aspect of their lives" hasn't yet had it's day in court. We're still in the trasition phase. We've had possibly tens of thousands of years under the bondage of superstition, and the modern scientific movement to explain the nature of the universe in real terms is barely 100 years old, at the fullest extent of any rhetoric about what constitutes modern understanding. Religion still in fact holds sway in may places on earth. We haven't had a "shift away from state religion," but rather we are currently shifting. You claim that this shift hasn't diluted tyranny, but my friend, you're trying to dilute the ocean with a lake. It's going to take time.
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I think this "transition" phase doesn't currently exist right now. Maybe it will one day, but considering majority of the U.S. population still feels that we need religion, we won't be seeing it for a while. Now, has this religious hold changed dramatically since the the colonization? Sure, but it's definitely still there, and is the majority (not even close to not the majority I might add) Sorry, just had to point out that there won't be any day soon that this "court" date you speak of will happen.
Also considering the constitution, it will most like NEVER make its day in court unless things in the U.S. are drastically changed, by that time, it will probably be the end of the World, so don't get your hopes up.
06-05-2013, 06:55 PM
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