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// Seven Deadly Sins in America Why America is not a Christian Country 5. Lust Estimates of the total value of the pornographic industry vary wildly, but the LA Times reports that: At least five of the 100 top websites in the U.S. are portals for free pornography, referred to in the industry as “tube sites,” according to [...]
// On the story of Phoebe Prince, Christopher Caldwell in the Financial Times writes: Prince’s family moved from Ireland to South Hadley, Massachusetts, last autumn so that 14-year-old Phoebe could be near her cousins and get to know the US. Pretty, cheerful, exotic and naive, she had what is described as a “fling” with the [...]
// A seemingly ancient argument made by the religious right is that “America is a Christian nation.” That’s why all sorts of theocratic nonsense is justified. Let’s see just how Christian this country is. 1. Greed Perhaps the easiest and most straightforward measure of the un-Christian character of the US is the economic system that [...]
