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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 30 2012, 03:14 AM (21 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Dec 30 2012, 03:14 AM Post #1 |
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Why are Americans still so religious? Yes I know that a lot of Americans don't go to church. However, a great many do, also a surprising number of non-church going Americans still subscribe to Christian doctrine. They say that the First World War with its industrial slaughter holed Christianity below the water-line in Europe. I suspect that The Great War has little emotional and psychological resonance in America either then or now, and therefore America escaped the European debate namely:How could a good and merciful God allow such huge slaughter? |
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| Deleted User | Dec 30 2012, 04:55 AM Post #2 |
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I don't know. Maybe it's got something to do with the Pilgrims and Puritans coming over to Massachusetts for the freedom to practice one of the most intolerant forms of religion ever established.
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| Deleted User | Dec 31 2012, 08:23 PM Post #3 |
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I used to read a lot of self-help books and books on popular psychology which almost always were written by Americans for Americans. In almost every book, the author would include lines such as:"You are active in your church." "You could become more active in your church." "You could give more money to your church." "If you had more money/were more spiritual you could spend more time in bible-study class." That last one was not as common as the others, but it does crop up in variants from time to time. All this does tend to bolster the European impression of white America as being churchy and religious. My impression of religious Americans is that they are in it for the money. They think that Jesus will bestow blessings in the form of money if they just sing the Lord's praises long and often: "Praise the Lord!" "Jesus is my personal saviour." "I love you Lord Jesus!" (American Christian praying to Jesus) Amer'Christian: "Oh my sweet lord Jesus!" Amer'Chrustian:"Lord I have been praising you to the sky for some time now, and I reckon you owe me about $1000000." Amer'Christian: "When am I going to receive my money oh Lord?" Amer'Christian: "I look forward to recieving thy bounty oh Lord in the form of a cheque for $100,000 as part payment." Jesus: "Err that is not how it works,There is no money!" Amer'Christian: "Then thou art not my good sweet Lord, but a devil let loose from the stygian Pit!" Amer'Christian: "Hmmm, well maybe I should convert to Judaism. Those Jews certainly are fond of money!" |
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