Why do you think the Americans are so bloody religious? [Spirituality & Religion]

@Reverend The fuck type of answer is that. You know who liked to inflict his 'freedom to be religious' ? Tamerlane, oh he loved to inflict his freedom to be religious ALL over the bloody place.

@Allelse you know who else does? We Americans

@Reverend Which is why America is such a violent fucking country, that and the Indians.

@Allelse do you live in a pansy country that has Govt lead you around with a leash?

@Reverend Interesting that you associate peace with lack of strength, but America has always been such a violent country. Not that I blame the Indians, nasty buggers but then I always liked the Indians. They knew how to deal with hyper religious puritans.

@Allelse Peace huh? It's always peaceful when there's nobody running against the grain because they have given all power to the Govt. We don't have a problem with hyper religious Puritans, we are fine with it, it's other parts of the world that has a problem with it.

@Reverend Yeah, yeah. Live in your little fantasy with the rest of the bloated, overweight hunters in Maine, and the shriveled up survivalists in Washington state. ALL believing that they could somehow fight off Government forces, Vietcong style. Keep on believing. I mean whatever helps you sleep at night I suppose and that's what religion is really all about.

@Allelse are you upset because I answered honestly to begin with, in which you didn't like. And through talking you've found out how gutless and jealous you are?

@Reverend I was never jealous of those who fear getting shot when going to school, and I'm not jealous now of those who find it easier to die by the wayside because it's cheaper than going to a doctor. In truth, if I was to be shot well my problems are over, but I'm not jealous of those who grow up in a ultra religious, violent country. Though I do enjoy your movies!

@Allelse The majority of America isn't violent. There are big cities in the states that are violent. But watching the movies from here I can definitely see why you consider it a bad place.

@Reverend It's not the movies it's the interesting history. My country's history is VERY boring. The worst we head was a little uprising where a few buggers were shot and some Chinese killed during the gold rush. That and a few shot natives.

@Allelse I think I'd rather have it boring. America will always have problems because we can't keep our nose at home where it belongs. Anytime something breaks out we have to go to it.

@Reverend Oh me too!! Believe me I like a boring history for my country, it means less hoo hah in the future. And even those few natives I mentioned who were shot, folk still cop hell for, when really it was just one of those things, much like with your Indians. When you bung two people together who have been separated by geography for a VERY long time, well it's inevitably going to lead to trouble. And while the early government did their best, they still referred to the natives as fauna.

And as for Americans sticking their noses about the world, well, I think it's just a part of society. The Americans as a people and a nation are new and they're stretching their legs, there was a time when it was the Spanish and the Portuguese, then the French and then the British then the Germans. A power, a force comes along and has a nosy about the place but it usually leads to more trouble. Like with the Muslims, the America psyche will never understand the psyche of the Middle East and vice versa; so I think its a good rule to keep them both as far away from each other as possible. But then you bung a few billion liters of oil out in the desert, and suddenly this new power, force or whatever thinks. Well, maybe I'll stick my nose in after all and that's fair enough, the poor trodden on Iraqis, were they still the great Assyrian empire of old and the Americans just a small Germanic tribe roaming about in Germany would be beaten aside in no time too had the tables been reversed.