I put this in Stormfront:
— The Bible Belt Attitude
In the Bible Belt where I was raised, even the atheists were strong in their faith.
In Europe, practically nobody attends church at all. In the suburbs, the church one attends is usually the one he inherited or the one that makes the most business contacts.
You almost never hear Europeans arguing about religion. In China, the whole concept of religion is utterly irrelevant to young people, Communist or not.
But we always had our village atheists, and they took it dead seriously.
One incident I remember at the University of South Carolina would never happen in Europe. A foreigner made a disparaging remark about Jesus Christ. Guess who we had to keep from fist fighting him?
Our militant atheist.
If you weren’t raised in the deep Bible Belt, away from the suburbs, this will seem odd. But if you were, you will not be the least surprised.
#1 by Hamsun on 11/14/2005 - 1:18 am
religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance
the nature of the Unknowable.
— Ambrose Bierce