Ah. But I don't want to confuse or frustrate you with my questions about god & Christianity & hate. It's just that the importance of religion in the US is so huge compared to where I live. (Oz) And there are so many extremes! Ranging from the the incredible enlightenment & generosity of the Amish after this terrible tragedy to the hatred & extremism of the Westboro Baptists. It's rather hard to grasp.(I can't quite get my head around how entangled church & state is in the US, either.) So when I seem surprised about a hating god it's because my notion of what Christianity is is rather quaint & much more straightforward than what you folk in the US see around you all the time. It seems so complicated!
No worries msolga. I do understand where you are coming from. Honestly speaking... About a hundred times at least I've thought about defecting to Australia. I probably would have done it by now, except for my pets who would be hard to bring along for such a long trip. If I could find a way to make it work though I would some days!
Don't missunderstand, hephzibah, I'm not trying to suggest Oz is perfect. We are certainly going through some troubles & upheavals right now! I'm just saying that the attitude to religion is very different. And the impact of religion is not nearly so marked here.
LOL I know msolga. There is no perfect place in the world. Though... hmm... probably shouldn't say this... but I have this looming feeling us americans are going to get ourselves blown sky high some day when we piss a few too many other countries off all at the same time and they decide to gang up on us. Yup... I don't want to see that. Also though, Australia is just cool to me. It always has been. I love the way ya'll talk. Hehe... Though I will probably never move there I do plan on making it there for a visit some day.
