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Originally Posted by jayswin
When Christian bigotry and discrimination finds its way into state and federal law then yes that is the definition of shoving beliefs on people, and that's what I was mostly referring to as that's where the thread bump came from.
Christianity has way too much negative influence in North America and thankfully Canada has at least started to turn its back on Christianity as the overbearing/ruling religion politically, but even we have a ways to go.
The US however............oh boy.
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Christianity IS western culture. Every single notion you have about helping the poor, respecting the dignity of the person etc... is borrowed wholesale from Christianity.
The dominant myth of modernity is that individuals somehow had to escape from the backwards clutches of the ruling churches. Nothing could be farther from the truth.