Hey Bonnie - Ha Ha! I would respond that to be masculine is NOT to be chauvinist or redneck...those are cases of misusing one's masculinity. As for "Godfearing"...that expression in its original vernacular meant "God-respecting"...fear had nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, it lost something in the translation to Olde English...or in the changing use of certain words over the last 10 centuries.

All Native Americans (prior to the arrival of the Whites) were very respecting of God, the Great Spirit...or the Great Mystery, as they sometimes called it. The women evidenced this attitude just as much as the men. There was not one single atheist in the entire length and breadth of this land in those days. Atheism is a response to religious oppression of people by an insane church.

Margaret - the general public presently rends its prey into bloody shreds by proxy...they have a slaughterhouse somewhere do it for them, and then they go to the supermarket, where the bloody remnants are all nicely wrapped up in cellophane for them and died red with red pigment number whatever. This is denial, and it is ignoble in the extreme. At least the animals do not enslave their prey in giant prisons before devouring them.

Quite a few people do abandon their runts...to the streets or to the television. See the results.

There is unaware barbarism all around us, in service to the dollar and the gun.

Are we civilized? Yes and no. We could be a whole lot more civilized than this.