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guthrie



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 24 2006,01:14   

Quote (tacitus @ Feb. 23 2006,18:50)
I sometimes wonder if American respect for authority is also a contributing factor to the sway religion has over the public.  Pastors, especially those of fundamentalist churches, are immensly powerful (fighteningly so, in my opinion) and their pronouncements are seldom questioned or challenged by anyone within their congregation. Usually the only option available if you disagree with what you are hearing from the pulpit is to leave.

And that is why, in my humble opinion, (given that I am a chirch of scotland raised agnostic) the American fundamentalists we are on about display a total betrayal of the very values of the protestant revolution, even though you'll find quite a few of them who will hark back to the past, and also their Scottish ancestry.

  
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