We didn't land on religious fruitcakes, religious fruitcakes landed on us!

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I forget, is that Mounds or Almond Joy?

Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don't
Americaaa's got nuts
Europe don't

No, I'm a fairly secular nutbar, unless you count the Church of St. John The Munchkin.

I just think we've got more devoutly religious people here and consequently our portion of nutbars is bigger.

I think too, there's more free enterprise in American religion. Like, in most places in Europe the predominant religion is or was the state religion. A lot of them seem to have finished with their nutbar period, and such nutbars as they have operate (and tend to be more outweighed) within their church's structure rather than being an independent voice on television.

Of course, I think this is also intertwined with you having more devoutly religious people, but that gets more complex.

I wish we could silence our nutbars...and not only because I'm catnip to them.

No, I'm a fairly secular nutbar, unless you count the Church of St. John The Munchkin.

We shall call it 'secubar'. Secubar, try it today - don't just take it on faith.

"God considers this land to be his," Robertson said on his TV program "The 700 Club." "You read the Bible and he says `This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, `No, this is mine.'"

He must have a macro for "That's not what I meant; I was misinterpreted." You watch. People will get all het up and he'll totally back down, in the meantime having gained a smidge of notoriety among his set of crazies. He's like what Howard Stern would be, if Howard Stern became a fundamentalist (without giving up his grandstanding abilities).

What would televised crazies do if they couldn't make outrageous statements to the media? I mean, it's not like they can do a Girls Gone Wild episode of the 700 Club for sweeps.

Although, if they did, I would laff and laff and laff.

I wish we could silence our nutbars...and not only because I'm catnip to them.

So they keep trying to roll around in you? That could get inconvenient.

there's more free enterprise in American religion

That's like saying there's more chocolate in Hershey's kisses.

Yeah. Well, we're all a little weird, but the closest I get to prosletizing is recommending "The Wire" a lot.(And I can't even spell prosletize correctly.)ETA: You're not as far off as all that, bt. For all that you're joking...I've been followed, touched without my consent and sprinkled with stuff. Yikes. One guy a few years ago bothered me for long enough I threatened to get a cop. Man's Law 1 God's Law(maybe) 0.

Even though I'm not a fan of organized religions, there are plenty of religious people that I respect and admire. So no, relgious != nutbar to me.