Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Craziest Beliefs Shared By 'One-In-Five' Americans (PHOTOS)


Nope.



True story, albeit from England over fifty years ago.



I'd just started high school (12) and had just had my first lesson in a science class about the solar system.



I was enthralled. Nothing like that was ever talked about at home and, aside from Bibles and a few other related ones, mine were the only books in the house.



Anyhow I rushed home full of excitement and told my father what I'd learned.



He got very angry, scoffed at the idea that the Earth is a globe and that it goes round the Sun.



I got a "good hiding" out of it - a fairly frequent occurrence.



He was a fundamentalist/evangelical christianist, preacher, chapel leader and quite successful small businessman you see. Naturally I never tried talking about anything of substance subsequently and, at about that time swore an oath to myself that I would never be like him - and I haven't been, though creating my own identity was hard and long ... decades, I was that screwed-up in so many ways.





England has changed a lot since then - and Australia where I am now - but the US hasn't, so I'm not surprized by any number of weird beliefs so many Americans have and what, to many other Westerners see as mass pathology, e.g.Mormon missionaries and Jehovahs Witnesses are regarded as nut cases by nearly everyone ... and Billy Graham types.
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