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See this is something I don't get:
In real life, I've talked with many people about the fact that America is often Puritan, religious, and uptight. In many cases, these people had a very angry reaction when I expressed my view. They told me that religious lunatics are such a marginal element of American society that (quote) "you could fit all of them into one stadium".
So who is right? me, or them?
On this forum, there's a guy named RJT who likes to argue with me. He constantly accuses me of considering the US to be a socially conservative theocracy. He argues that America is nothing like that and that I'm "too impressionable".
But I tell him, whenever I open a newspaper or a newssite, EVERY DAY without exception, I see an article or a story dealing with some cultural/religious controversy, most often to do with sex, values, etc., such as breastfeeding in public, showing a nipple on TV, or - just the other day - the cheerleaders in Texas or the Miss America scandal, or the Intelligent Design debate.
In every story, there's a fundie/prohibitionist side which advocates religious values and conservatism. So is it really true that the number of Puritan-minded Americans is so small "you could fit all of them into a single stadium"? With this thread being just another case in point, who is right: me or them?
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