Interesting read.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-christian-right-is-helping-driv...
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And geographically the North/South divide opens wider, this time on religious grounds in the US. A direct correlation between the quality of secular education and the wider populations adherence to religion can be drawn, and eerily they mimic the old Secessionist demarcation in the US.
Obviously human memories despite literacy and the study of history are fallible. It seems the US is heading for a greater conflict than in the 19th Century if the divisive utterings of the GOP are anything to go by.
Republic of Gilead anyone? allied with the Lone Star theocracy? ? You have even armed your own version of the Taliban.
They were one of the reasons I left the Catholic Church
Good for you Mrs. Paul Owczarek.
You can still have your faith, and not have to lend support to corrupt organizations.
I applaud you, and if there is a heaven, you will be standing at the front of the line.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"