Its encouraging to see that at least one yank has seen through the myth. Contrived or no, the videoclip does put the reality of yankeeland in its rightful place.

Runner is 100% correct in stating 'anyone that can't see that adopting the Christian Judea ethic made the West great is either naive or blind. We have slidden drastically since abandonding it especially amont our indigeneous people,'

The comment from sonofgloin 'Australia will be a religious state again in the near future….but it won’t be christianity' ably illustrates an all too real risk, although my personal opinion is that we'll probably encounter a financial crash before full islamification, mind you it will be at best a close call.

Whilst individual hit the nail on the head with 'That's because it has more non-western crapheads than any other', this country is only a gnats whisker behind. We see the writing on the wall daily with media reports from the UK, US, France, etc, but still we choose to bury our heads in the sand like so many stupid ostriches.

No sentient being could disagree with Jay who observes 'America like it's imperial possessions Canada, the UK and Australia is under the sway of cretins, weasels and lowlifes. After seeing their birthright trashed and handed over to the third world the great men have all given up working for the "greater good" and started working for their own good.'

I don't totally agree with yuyutsu. Whilst the West never adopted the Christian-Judaic ethic, it was our birthright & we've unquestionably abandoned it in the headlong rush to embrace political correctness and other such trendy garbology. Yankeeland did in fact have its time in the sunlight, especially when its founding fathers created a unique nation from the ruins of the old world and there are even a few remnants remaining in the Amish people.

Interesting question, Rainier.

>>@ Pericles, You obviously enjoy writing criticism, but to what end?<<

This is an opinion forum. I was offering an opinion.

I might as easily ask, "to what end" did you take the trouble to ask your question of me.

Any thoughts? What motivated you to tap out that sentence? What sort of response did you expect, and where did you think the conversation would go from there? After all, your question was considerably off-topic, so you must have had something on your mind.

The Christian Church imprisoned the man who dared to tell them that the earth wasn’t flat, but round, because It went against their so-called godly teachings.

The word “Heretic” and “+Infidel” had and has much the same interpretation in the eyes of these two religions. The fact that
the unholy must be tortured and killed.

The reason the West thrived and progressed is because somehow the people managed to put the Christian religion back in it’s place and divided it from the running of the government and wouldn’t let the church impose restrictions on scientific exploration and new ideas.

The West advanced mightily in invention and education , medicine and new technologies because the church was told to butt out of imposing their ideas and stifling questioning and exploration of any new ideas.
It was the good sense of a lot of people in Western countries that wouldn’t let the church impose and wield the power they would have liked to wield past a certain point.

The Christian church was dragged kicking and screaming into more Modern and educated ideas and church services by the ordinary people not by any enlightened thinking on the part of the Clergy.

Christian congregations also made it clear that they were not going to let the church dictate that they could not use contraception and end up having 8-10children to be financially responsible for as well the incredible burden this placed on the two people trying to care for that many children within a marriage.

So, No! It wasn’t the Christian Church that made the West Great, but the good sense of church congregations that refused to be held back and kept down by the irrational, ridiculous, attitudes the church had towards family life and education

There is a humungous difference between churches (ie religion) as human invention & christianity, although the sheeple generally fail to recognize this. As with all entities developed by humans, we see power corrupting & positions of power attracting the corruptible. As someone else remarked, there are countless religious 'franchises', each of which has its own peculiarities. Note that islam fits the criteria of a religion as its of human invention & very closely related to judaism.

It appears the main thrust of the previous contribution was toward the so called holy roman church, and indeed this is a quite reasonable move since the catholic church is in many ways, the 'original' supposedly christian religion & most bible translations are derived from the (catholic) vulgate, thereby incorporating its numerous errors. Interestingly, many contemporary bible students do not in fact regard the catholic church as 'holy', but believe it to be the false prophet of Revelation. All halfway advanced civilizations have observed some religion or another, egyptian, roman, greek, inca, indian, chinese, etc, consequently those ostensibly based on christianity aren't anything unusual. All these societies and more used religion as a means to control the masses, all deviated markedly from the precepts laid out in their sacred texts, but thats OK because until recently almost none of the peasants had their own copies and even if they did, they didn't read the things anyway.

Its worth mentioning that the founding of the US, arguably once one of the greatest societies in modern times, involved protestant rather than the catholic thinking of the old world (remember the church of england has only recently parted company from the roman catholic mob at the time and the rest of europe was, and still is, effectively under vatican control.

Prax you continue to be an amusing poster.
That effort is one of your best.
It is my view no religion is based on truth.
And not one has clean hands.
But America? has reinvented the whole thing to suit them.
KKK has we are told God on their side.
Another group haunts funerals saying the dead deserved to die.
The country gave us Johnstown and the branch Davininans had time for a mad murderer who bombed his country,s local sercuirty in Gods name, because of branch d.
Some cuddle rattle snakes and the whole county is following far different Gods, all mad as hatters but thanks mate, for the chuckle

Belly

You have an amazing ability to ignore the blindingly obvious when its right in front of your dial. Did I or did I not go to great lengths to identify human nature as the key factor ?? Of course the religious establishment is off the rails, thats absolutely guaranteed due to the power corrupts / power attracts the corruptible factors. No difference whatever to politics or big business or indeed anything else invented by mankind.