Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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At least we have free speech. ; - P Mike F. gdr ________________________________ From: Peter T. Chattaway <[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 11:38:58 AM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...) On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Bruce Geerdes wrote: >> Buttressing the tendency of many Americans to have a hallowed, quasi-religious >>view of their founding documents and their historical artefacts etc. is a big, >>big problem. > > I fail to see that. How has this "big, big problem" exhibited itself in >undesirable ways? I haven't been keeping a catalogue, but FWIW, thinking the U.S. is God's special gift to the Earth is a particular (and not uncommon) form of "exceptionalism" (and Palin did make an explicitly pro-exceptionalism statement or two in her statement), and to the degree that any of America's less-desirable policies have been motivated or buttressed by a belief in exceptionalism, there would seem to be some overlap there. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot