From: "Randy H" 

You're forgetting Carter.

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:37:19 GMT, John Beckett
>  wrote:
>
> >Jeff Shultz  wrote in message
> >> And evolution is a theory, nothing more.
> >
> >One of the reasons I find this newsgroup interesting is that I pick up
> >quite a bit of US culture that may be handy one day (I'm down under).
> >
> >Seeing someone write "evolution is a theory" is still
totally astonishing
> >to me. Wow! If evolution is a theory, what's a fact? I'm beginning to
> >understand Homer Simpson...
> >
> >John
>
> The basic reason you still see that kind of thing here is that, of all the
> developed countries, the US is by far the most religion besotted.  There
is
> nothing quite like it anywhere in the EU, Japan, China, Southeast Asia. At
that,
> among all the democracies, only India surpasses the US in the degree in
which
> religion plays a part.
>
> With the exception of the present Bush, it is seldom seen in public
affairs
> because the religious types seldom do well in national elections. I
believe Bush
> is the first born-again Christian we have had the misfortune to see in the
White
> House.  Once Bush is ousted, the religious right is likely to once again
fade
> into that obscurity it so richly deserves. Unfortunately only to rise
again some
> time in the future no doubt. Their fortunes have waxed and waned down
through
> the generations of American history. Each time, however, it returns with
reduced
> influence and effectiveness. Given time it may disappear almost entirely
as it
> has almost everywhere else in the world.
>
>
>

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