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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I should hope not, but then again I am a closet idealist.
This is the key. But is this perhaps merely the other side of the same coin whereby many Christians protest regarding the trampling of their own liberties and sensibilities? Maybe the problem is not Christians and athiests; maybe the problem in cases such as this has to do with them all being American, as I cannot imagine a similar sort of reaction in any other place in the Western world.
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Its certainly not black and white. You can see a whole host of problems tied to every issue, the vitriol in their news and politics. The aggressive beliefs of their views on their own rights (right or wrong as they may be) and of course a nation who has so many identities and is changing too fast for some to cope with.
Its just such a massive experiment that I think its starting a downward trend, maybe for good.
Its so partisan I don't know what could bring that nation back to civility, you'd think 9/11 would have done this; and it did briefly; but boy do the divisions ever run deep.