Reply #37: 80 percent believe in a deity?

[warren pease]

That's just pathetic. That's a level of religiosity not seen today except in primitive societies. That's what you would expect to find in the Middle Ages, when it was an act of mercy to burn witches and heretics, and the pope was the most powerful political figure in the western world.

In contrast, Europe's religiosity runs around 15 - 17 percent, and that number keeps dropping. But significant numbers of Americans are either too poorly educated or too chronically dense, or both, to handle a simple, provable, demonstrable, repeatable FACT. But they have no problem believing in fairy tales. They're 100 percent certain of an unprovable fantasy, but fear and deny the beautiful logic behind natural selection or the life-saving potential of stem cell research.

The very least these dimwits could do is stay home on election day. But no. They'd rather pollute the electoral process by voting for the one with the best hair, or the best posture, or the best tailor, or the best looking spouse. Issues? We don't got to deal with no stinking issues.

And what's the result? Georgie the boy king, who everybody wants to have a beer with. Let's all have a kegger with George. He's such a great guy, a real bundle of laughs. Maybe we can get him to do that hilarious looking-for-the-WMDs stunt he did at the correspondents dinner a couple of years ago. He might even get drunk enough to choke on another pretzel, and wasn't that a kick in the ass. We're all just rolling on the floor laughing and joking with this great, great guy. Mission accomplished; bring it on; putting food on the family -- ahhhh, this guy just kills me.

Meanwhile, another hundred or so people died in Iraq during the past few minutes, some madman blew away more than 30 college kids while exercising his sacred Second Amendment rights, and the rest of the planet's people shivered uncontrollably at the possibility that the world's most dangerous rogue state -- fronted by a violent dunderhead and led by a greedy, lying war-monger -- might decide their resources are next on the list and bring the chaos and carnage to them.


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