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[hifiguy]

22. In way it's a shame there was never an American state religion.

In Europe, intellectuals dismissed state religion as the handmaiden to and apologist for autocracies. This bred a healthy skepticism about both religion and autocracy seeing as how they were joined at the hip for centuries.

Here, the religious freedom which Madison and Jefferson propounded they thought would be applicable to the Quakers and people like Roger Williams, not three-toothed genetically-defective snake-handling morons and their slicked-up modern counterparts, dingbat faith healers/teevee preachers whose sole goal in life is to fleece every penny out of the dumbass masses and relocate their cash to the Cayman Islands while preaching a "gospel" straight out of Giovanni Gentile's "The Doctrine of Fascism."

That "religious freedom" allows any uneducated dingbat to grab a bible, set themselves up as a "preacher" and start making "authoritative pronounceents" about the will of gawwwwwwwd. As Mark Twain said, religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool" and nowhere is that more universally true than in the good ol' US of A. And given Barnum's Law - that for every sucker there are two born to take him, this is one of the main things greasing this country's skid into a veritable black hole of idiocy.

"It is easy with the bible to pretend you are in showbiz." = Frank Zappa