Naw Littlehawk. I don't mean Canada. You have enough issues with the French as it is. . I mean the part of USA below the Dixie as it were. Where your mate was sent in exile.

I don't know about in Canada but here in The UK television shows love screening snippets of God channel shows from the deep south so we can apparently laugh and feel superior I suppose. Me? I feel worried that these dangerous idiots buy politicians and are trying to turn the constitutionally secular USA into a Jesus theocracy, whilst denouncing Islamic areas of the world for trying the exact same thing.

We have still to disenfranchise the Church of England but it is slowly happening. The deputy prime minister and leader of the opposition have declared they question the right of one religion to be involved in legislative issues and the prime minister says he goes to church purely through tradition. (He only started that once he ran for office.) Can you see anyone running for The White House saying they don't do God?

Yet whenever you point out that religious membership is not exactly logical in these enlightened days, they send the dogs out to attack. Some try to be subtle, although come over as subtle as a bucket of lard, whilst some are rather disturbed.

Then of course you have the well adjusted rational people who are comfortable with their faith and always have been. These are the ones the more sinister nutters depend on for respectability.

I see it as a rearguard action and the rise of polarised religion in 21st century western world society is the death rattle. The unearthing of abuse, the open questioning of not seeing gays and women as equal, laws being passed against the wishes of bishops. .. Society is slowly seeing the paper tiger for what it was founded on. Control of communities.

Looks like revelations saw the target but missed the point.