Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 06:30 PM 12/10/04 -0500, Buzz Hausner wrote: > >Just like those Europeans who "just know" that all U.S. citizens are > gun > >toting, bible thumping, avaricious war mongers. > Marc rreplied: > > We aren't? When did we change? > > Marc And, I agree, sort of. There's a great piece of historical writing by Jon Butler, entitled Awash in a Sea of Faith. In it he points out what for many folk is the obvious: The USA has always been "awash in a sea of faith," full of groups of all sort, who thumped all kinds of bibles, waited for the heavens to open, again and again, etc., etc. All this is rather odd and peculiar to many Europeans, who generally take their religion these days in somewhat more moderate doses. One of my old friends, a university chaplain on an exchange from Tubingen, simply could not get his head around the preoccupation of the vast majority of the folk in the USA with sex and religion. He would look puzzled and ask, "Do people here really believe that God cares where people put their penises and vaginas?" Ken Frazier