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by nw05678 1660 days ago
Your founders were a bunch of tossers. The American fascination with elevating them to god like status is laughable.
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And that's what you usually get on twitter. Great example. That's one of the reasons why it's a cesspool - people like this.
Yes, one possible explanation is that in a country where so many people take christian scripture seriously you can kind of see that they might not see the intellectual absurdity of treating the constitution as if it were some sort of sacred text. The problem, as ever, is that it's hard to have conversations about modern western humans being rational if we are obliged to be polite about their childish religious superstitions.
Citation? :)