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Originally Posted by mmarsh Here another question, why is America the only Western Country to actually have this debate? In other Christian countries the population would die of laughter at the mere thought of teaching creationism in school. |
Probably because the rest of the western world got over religion and found the economy was a more believable method of controlling the masses.
I think Napoleon Bonaparte said it best ... "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
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If horses would have hands and could paint with their hands and create works of art like the humans, then horses would form and paint the gods with the shape of horses and they would build sculptures according to their own bodies.
- Xenophanes
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