Eorl wrote:I dunno, I think politics can be every bit as sensitive as religion. It's the degree of difference and the impact of the consequences that seems to matter.
I think Eorl's captured the current state of affairs pretty well. I think a lot of folks on both sides of the american political spectrum are making politics just as sensitive, divisive and "life-threatening" as religion has been for millenia. The many scathing derogatory comments made recently against the current and past administrations, congressional members, and party hacks were, in the past, reserved exclusively for heretics, papists, and infidels.
