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HesAPooka on 27 November 2012
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sethnintendo said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
HesAPooka said:
Can someone explain to me why religion is such a huge debate in America right now? Here in Canada no one talks about religion. If someone is religious that's their business, and if someone isn't that's fine too, but it seems like everywhere on the internet Americans are having a huge blowout about religion.


I'm not an American, but I guess it's a huge topic since religion affects people's lives even if they don't believe in it. Gay marriage, for instance, is a huge topic, abortions are mainly opposed by believers as far as I know and going by some youtube videos I have seen there are even some people arising who want the church to be connected to the government for some reason.

That is mainly the far right blowing those out of proportion.  Most people don't give a shit about gay marriage, abortion, etc.  We are ahead of some countries in some areas of train of thought and very far behind in other areas.  If you ask me it is because of the evangelical Christians.  They are so self centered that they will pretty much attach themselves to any issue and declare their train of thought is right.  These are the same people that got booted out of Europe to live in USA away from persecution.  They escaped Europe only to wreck havoc on the USA.


That's what I thought. While people in Canada are aware of these issues, they seem not to make such a huge impact on the media. Mainly because even religious people in Canada for the most part believe in freedom of choice. Of course there will be some extremists that think if it's not their way than it's the wrong way, but for the most part I think people are a little more understanding here. 



I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying, "Good evening, Mr. Dowd." Well, I turned around and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name.