You know, despite my cynical facade I'm actually a fairly optimistic guy. Our nation has dealt with worse, failed more spectacularly, and has enough dirty sins and proud achievements to fill a few dozen history books. We're a nation borne by and has now given birth to enough paradoxes to boggle the mind. In America, symbols have always been more important than any smidgen of objective reality.
Some days though... it all gets to be a bit too much. No, I'm not talking about the recent economic collapse. I'm talking about a poll that shows that 68% of Americans believe in Angels (Yes, Fucking Angels! 68%!).
Then we wonder why we can't be get along perfectly with the rest of the West in Europe. Well, Europe doesn't believe in Angels. Perhaps it's better that way, but after reading Matt Taibbi's infiltration into those crazy conservative Christian bootcamps in The Great Derangemetn I do truly fear for our country.
I don't want to sound like Mr. Liberal Atheist here. For one, I'm not really a liberal nor am I an atheist. I believe that my deeply personal struggles in understanding The Powers That Be are mine and mine alone. Sometimes though, I do wonder if you can ever truly divorce America from it's papacy.
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