Counting The Angels On A Collection Of Pinheads

Because everything was so much better during the Dark Ages, when everybody believed that Jeezis on his White Horse would be dropping from the sky any yr. now, we can lay blame for the ills of the modern world at the foot of wishy-washy theology. 

Is there any possible reason for these United Snakes to have a "civil religion," other than to frighten the peasants into submission?

In Washington's day, it may have been reasonable for the elite to worry that only fear of hellfire kept the masses from running amok, but in the 21st century it is clear that democracy as a form of government does not require citizens who believe in supernatural religion. Most of the world's stable democracies are in Europe, where the population is largely post-Christian and secular, and in East Asian countries like Japan where the "Judeo-Christian tradition" has never been part of the majority culture.

Hell, so to speak, we could postulate that the less bullshit religion, the more democracy.

Another pinhead got involved in the discussion, invoking Martin Luther King, Jr., who'd doubtless be as opposed to gay marriage as the Crunchy Con is.

A Christianity too feeble to stand up prophetically to the broader culture is not necessarily a good thing, even from a secularist point of view.

"Prophetically?" You'll stand up the broader culture ("Democracy: Dangerous or Delusional?") w/ robed foamers on street corners? Bring it, John the Babtiss.

No point in attempting reason w/ any of these sheep, but the curse of the authoritarian mind is obvious here. What a shame some of us think for ourselves. It just needlessly complicates everything.