I've always liked the Swedes. Dirty, dirty Swedes.

[theweaselking]

Sweden bans teaching of lies as facts in government-approved schools.

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[badbadbookworm.livejournal.com]

WICKED

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

http://www.godhatessweden.com/

[alienor77310.livejournal.com]

Huh? That seems obvious, but then again, I'm French.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Chu rch
Sta te

They get it.

[thette.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how funny that is.

Look up the history of the Church of Sweden. Really.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

I once told Wilma a big problem with this country and separation of chruch and state is that many of the first people who came here had to leave Europe because they were persecuted for having religious views that were too fundamentalist.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The problem wasn't that they were persecuted.

The problem was that they left because they were *unable to be the persecutors, and that pissed them off*.

The American colonists didn't object to persecution. They just hated being on the receiving end.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

well that was kind of my point. goes a lot to explain why there is such a hatred for anything liberal or attempts to actually separate church and state.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

They were too conservative for the rest of the world even back then?

That explains so much...

I honestly assumed Europe wasn't that diff for conservatism back then.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

Southern Europe.. Spain, etal. that were still very heavily influenced by Rome. The Church of England was pretty liberal for it's day.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Right, that makes more sense. Seems to me that the Church of England was always pretty liberal compared to the rest (I could be wrong).

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

"Conservatism" is the wrong word. Both sides of the religion debates er, wars were quite conservative -- they thought the other side satanic.

Those Puritans just couldn't take the Catholic/Episcopal rule in England. When they got here, they taxed and beat Catholics when they could.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Ah.. so freedom of religion (to them) was really more freedom for THEIR beliefs, not everyone.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the normal interpretation?

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

It's one of them, but not the interpretation the "founding fathers" had used when they wrote the amendment.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

I got my looks from my Swedish grandmother. *proud*

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

SWEET!

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

No, it's "SWEDE"!


/kidding