I have been watching news, blogs, reports and documentaries about how religious is north America. It was a surprise to me how much people were fundamentalist compared to other countries.
In my opinion I always thought that north America was a religious country, but moderated enough not to suffocate their intellectual and secular side. I was wrong. Wrong like nothing I could ever imagine.
There is a wild side of the US (especially) that is concentrated to religion in a matter how Soviets were about their secrecy and power. Something is quite shocking and we are in the year 2010. We suppose to be less and less superstitious about old tales that stigmatized in the wrong way innocent people. Time as gone by, but people did not understand their spiritual mistakes.
Writing from the country where the Pope and the Vatican live, I feel like I'm in the one of the most atheist country in the world.
Yes, right here in Italy we have so many people who are allegedly Christians, but do everything everyday to disprove it. Beside not following the bible nor the commandments, the Italian people can openly declare their atheism without any persecution from the church or other institutions.
In this country people are aware that the Catholic church has a bed in Rome and also how powerful it is, but there is no witch-hunt for those who do not believe in god or Jesus. Actually, it seems like people like more the way Jesus acted towards poor people rather than the whole bible story.
Atheists for Jesus? Maybe.
It's all about realizing how much Italy has been living with the Vatican manipulating the way Italy lives. Yes, I'm afraid to say so, but there is a deep belief in me that the progression of this country has been deeply halted by the Pope and his agenda.
Do I get expelled or burnt to death in a public square for my thought? Simply no! But why?
The answer can be given showing how much attention the Pope has been given to other countries while spreading the word, but Italy.
What has the Pope been doing to make Italy a better place? Nothing at all!
Faith based families are growing and developing other priorities that are not spiritual mostly because the financial crisis is striking with great vengeance upon the middle class. So, there is little or no time to turn for religious help because people are realizing it's not working! There is nothing about a church and an idol that can feed those families and help them pay their bills.
There is no outcasting for your different religious or no religious believes. Nobody cares actually. People lost that intellect for the spiritual side in order to improve their actual social condition.
On social site's pages there are no "Thank you Jesus" or "I love god" or "Prayers for the white brothers". Nothing like that. So far we have been considering the spiritual side as something very personal that does not belong to the public eye. Not even for the internet age and it's surrogates.
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