peapod said:Bottom line, around here you are going to sell anything to most of us. America has been taken over by religious zealots! HA! you have become your enemy. The joke is on you :twisted:
may be. but I am not american I am Canadian. The US is not perfect, but perhaps you have touched on a point: this may ultimately be a religious war between christians and muslims. It is in this context that I can understand why Canada is not involved. we are a truly SECULAR society without much regard for religion. In this country, people who are strongly religious are viewed as "extremists". Now I am not religious myself, but it is interesting to note that religious societies historically have a much greater sense of past and future and less faith in the idea of "permanence". That might explain why we stand by and do nothing as our health care, democractic,value and political systems erode before our eyes; because secular societies tend to think that the "here and now" will always persist. If we are that type of society, incapable of recognizing sea change, then we are doomed to erosion much like what we are witnessing with the European community as we speak...