Well the article is ment for humor also. Also he does make some valid points. Why do athiest always complain about everything unless it's a convienience for them. Anyway I guess I should shut up now because I'm the evil american.
Sorry, I wasn't talking about you specifically, even though it may have sounded that way. I was actually referring to a lot of the Americans who posted here, atheists definitely included, who seemed to me to be more intolerant of the other side as compared to posters from Europe. I'm not saying that all Americans are like this, just most.
It's not racism, either; it's political reality. Since I live in Canada, I've been following American politics quite a bit over the years, and it really seems to me like the majority of the populace is unable to see any merits in anyone else's point of view but their own. The US is an extremely diverse country, but they all tend to keep to themselves & ignore other opinions (ex. Berkeley's far-left populace that is characterized by intolerance if all big business and managers, who will routinely get convicted in courts there even if it is blatantly obvious that they did nothing wrong).
I suppose this is a by-product of the 2-party system, where the members of the opposition (be it Democrats or Republicans) ALWAYS vote against any motion by the ruling party, regardless of what it is. I mean, how could enemies POSSIBLY agree on anything, right? The only time that they did was in the wake of a horrible tragedy such as 9/11.
I also find that your news channels rarely give truly balanced coverage on ANYTHING. They swing completely to the right for some time, and then to the left if political polls show the left gaining favour, but they almost never seem to show all the sides of a story (because apparently that's not what the public wants to see). It's a vicious cycle, because showing only one side of a story makes the public think there IS only one side to the story.
I think that in Canada, people are generally more open to different options than they are in the US (in the recent election, 4 parties split our vote share, each gathering a healthy share of the vote, resulting in a minority government that will be forced to make compromises with other parties).
Anyway, it's my
opinion that all of this results in a populace that is less informed and more polarized than people in other parts of the world like Canada. I can't really speak for Europe because I haven't lived there recently, but most people in this thread who are from Europe seemed to me to be more open-minded (Axeman, for example).
Oh, and as for this:
Also your right George Bush is a bad bad man compared to some of the great rulers from Europe for example Adolf Hitler.
That was then, this is now.
I think that two world wars on their soil have made most Europeans extremely vary of war as a solution.
Incidentally, I never said that Bush was "a bad, bad man". I simply don't agree with his statement "you're either with us or you're against us" since it seems an extremely ignorant thing to say.
Just because I'm against you on some things does not mean that I'm against you on absolutely everything! Can you agree with
that at least?
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