Love it or leave it bub!! Its because of Nazis like you that 9/11 happened!!!!!

RobI: That is either the funniest post Ive ever read or you are tragically illiterate. I’m really not sure.

And I for one do not want shirtless dudes at my truck stop, sorry.

If widespread public drunkenness would be a greater indication of a country’s reason and intelligence, then I am glad that I live in the United States. With the alcoholism rates in Europe, such as the Czech Republic, so staggering why should I take any comfort in the smug satisfaction in these words?

This is not intelligence, it is some skewed sense of superiority that yields no truth, and refuses accountability for one’s own failings. I do not always agree with the United States, and I certainly am no patriot, but please: think for yourselves.

blah… blah… blah! Man, Japan sure is great! Get to drink whenever and everywhere I want to, smoke at any establishment, at anytime (would be cool if I smoked cigs). But for some reason, I miss the states.

The Ocean’s lyrics are considerably more ‘intelligent’ then this.

Intelligent poster, i commend you.

The above quoted part wasn’t the most pointed aspect of what he wrote. This I think instead is:

“After leaving Chicago that morning, I turned on the radio to a show called “Truth for Life” and listened to a preacher. It was about raising children according to the bible. That guy was suggesting that parents ask their kids certain questions at an early age and give them the answers straight away; questions like “How did Adam, the first man, come onto this Earth?” – “God created him”; “What did God create him from?” – “The dust of the soil”; “Why did Adam and Eva sin?” – “Because they ate the forbidden fruit that they were not supposed to eat”; “Does Adam’s original sin affect us today?” – “Yes, it does, we are born in a sinful condition”; “What can we do to escape this condition?” – “Nothing at all, but walk humbly on the side of God”; etc.

He pointed out that it was not important that their kids would eventually understand and reflect upon all that, they should rather get accustomed to these answers as truth, they should accept them and approve of them out of habit rather than reason and reflection, for this would be the only way to lead them to God and to keep them from rebellion. For every child, and this is where the sermon became really terrifying, is born under this sinful condition, and every typical expression of adolescence and individuality, every “I want to do what I want to do”, is nothing but an expression of every child’s corrupted nature. “No matter how cute they are”, he said, “they are evil”, and he started giving examples that would illustrate their corrupted nature, even before adolescent rebellion: their merciless crying, their insatiable hunger (greed!), and their insisting expressions of will (”Mom, I want ice cream!”).

At this point it became clear how much he despised children, how much he hated the fact that a baby is pooing and crying. For him, a baby was nothing more than a vegetable, a plant that needed strong guidance in its growth, for otherwise it would turn into weed. The priest was implicating that parents do not and shall not love their children for its own sake, but that they shall love God through their children, and thus put up with all the pooing and crying, because it is God’s will, because having children, and all the depraved physical measures that have to be taken to get pregnant in the first place, are the will of God. So according to his interpretation of the bible, children are just a carrier, just a medium, just a burden we have to put up with because God wants us to do so. We passed by a huge building, and there was a slogan and it read “you don’t need digital cable to tune into God”.

Rules and regulations, and a confidence in authority rather than reason – after listening to this sermon, I had a better understanding of where all this is stemming from. The influence and power of the Christian church and morality, which has declined rapidly since the days of enlightenment almost everywhere in Europe, is still so strong here that people are more used to authority, to abiding by rules and regulations, rather than following reason.”

ps… having myself been in the States and Europe, I have to say America is backwards in a few ways because of the conservative base here. For example: We still don’t have a national health care system because whenever it gets proposed then someone shouts “Socialism” and it dies right there. I don’t hear about groups in England calling for private Health-Care. I wonder why?

I think that Robin is right to say some of that about america, I am an american and our belief system and willingness to be asses to those of a nother land is apparent by the comment by RobInjection. I have talked with Robin several times myself and he is not a Nazi or anything like that, and to blanket a whole nation for their past is bullshit. think of the impression that our own president has left on the world already.