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46. I think there is a kind of critical mass effect

Tue May 26, 2015, 04:12 PM

May 2015

Like now how gay marriage quickly flipped to a majority supported idea. The same seems to be coming for marijuana legalization.

In the USA, if there was a person that walked up on the street and asked people "Do you believe in God?", probably 90% would say yes. Even though most would not be regular church goers, or read the Bible, or even own a Bible. And probably don't even think of Christianity or how it should apply to their daily lives and in every decision they make. They say yes in order to not be ostracized, be shut out of the majority, or at least the perceived majority if you watch a lot of Fox News and Republican (and most Democratic) politicians. The Bible is, after all, Hillary's favorite book!

I hope one day that tide will turn in the USA, where the zietgiest will shift in rapid fashion when folks will realize that they don't have to be socially pressured anymore to have to pretend to believe in a big invisible being and a lake of fire if they don't.

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