God Hates Sweden

WBC's existence is embarrassing to all Americans.

Just want to say, Most Americans would not shed a tear if the WBC all died in a fire

@CosmicMind89 what's the WBC?

please don't lump all of america with Westboro Baptist Church we hate them to, like a lot.

@Mericagirl I'd shoot the adult members of the WBC if I could.

@Mericagirl I wouldn't be surprised if the entire WBC were to burn in hell. They certainly seem to deny Christ and His works. They've forgotten, "Judge not, lest you yourselves be judged."

@Mericagirl They show up and protest EVERY TIME at San Diego Comic Con. Nobody takes them seriously, and there are sometimes Jesus cosplayers out there holding signs making fun of them. It's just annoying that they even bother. It's a nerd convention, ffs. Maybe they just want the media coverage. Nobody gives it to them, though, so they should just go home. Unless they don't mind paying our tourism taxes.

As a Christian who lives in America, I disown the Westbro Baptist Church and just try to pretend it doesn't exist. They are extremely hypocritical to what the Bible actually says. According to the Bible, God is merciful and forgiving, and says that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves, not calling people out and making them feel awful.

@Snickerwolf22 I agree with this, although where I live, people are very intolerant towards homosexuality.

That does it. Estonia is a Nordic country.

*COUGH COUGH* ACTUALLY IT SAYS MAN SHALL NOT LAY WITH BOY BUT PEOPLE CONFUSE IT FOR MAN SHALL NOT LAY WITH MAN AND THERE WAS A GAY COUPLE IN THE BIBLE BUT AMERICA IS JUST A BUNCH OF DUMBASSES *COUGH*

I'm finnish. I remember being forced to pray before dinner in daycare and preschool. I still remember the Our Father prayer word for word even though i've always been an atheist. I even one told a priest, at my youngest brother's christening when i was four or five, that there was no god. I remember because it was caught on video.

Somehow the child-me never realized, despite the aforementioned forced prayers and my sibling's baptisms, that the adults actually believed in this God guy. I was under the impression they were some kind of weird rituals like sauna, easter bunny, and santa claus.

I was outright terrified when i grew to learn that not only is religion widely believed, but actively attempted to force on everybody on the planet one way or the other at this exact moment.That adult people, mentally healthy adult people with jobs and education, believe in and worship a magic man in the sky. I was even more shocked when i noticed they had brainwashed my little brother into some kind of a fundamentalist at age 12.

Often i just wish that every religious person on Earth would somehow be struck dead. Imagine what we as a species and as a society could achieve without them violently (see religious terrorists, american mass shooters, and the like) or politically (see american politics, built-on-religious-bias education, and the very existence of the abortion debate) hindering our development.

@Sisu #9839203

Ironically, for "every religious person on Earth would somehow be struck dead", would require a deliberate and very specific Act of God.

I honestly doubt the world would become as paradise-like as you imagine. Most of the worst monsters in our species are motivated by simple greed, selfishness, a lust for power, hatred and a lack of empathy or compassion. Religion is merely their tool for gaining a lot of fanatical supporters to assist them in their self-serving atrocities. If you'll look, horrible leaders today are quite able to motivate large groups of ignorant people by convincing them of fairly nonsensical things, without even needing to bring god into it. Look at Trump and his magical wall that Mexico will pay for! (Or whatever civil right and protection he's trying to destroy this week... I've stopped keeping track).

My parents are religious - just not racist, homophobic, xenophobic, intolerant, etc.
Like, they're Catholic. But They're lovely people, who don't discriminate and love equally.

Sigh dammit America...I remember when gay marriage was made legal in the states...and people kept threatening to move to Canada...I was like uhh yeah...about that..

Oh yes, USA is SUPER religious! Let me throw some odd facts at you:

* The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the USA.
* 46% of American adults believe that the world is less than 10,000 years old.
* In 1998, 10,113 American women insured themselves against Virgin Birth, at the millennium.
* More than one in five Americans believes that the world will end in their lifetime.
* In 1859, a moral panic swept America over young people playing too much chess. (I'm going to include this one because the panic was mainly spread from church pulpits.)
* In 17th-century Virginia, missing three Sunday Masses in a row carried the death penalty.
* 45% of surveyed American adults doubt the safety of vaccinating their children against deadly diseases that are entirely preventable in the modern age (most common reason given for refusing to vaccinate their children is "religious reasons"... I must have missed that page of the Bible. >_> "Thou shalt not protect thine offspring from plague, nor the children of thine neighbors and friends, whom thine disease-ridden spawn shalt contaminate" Something like that?)

@Hinoron Wow... you know USA so well

@Golightly

Closest (and only) neighbor. Longest undefended border in the world (both in length and duration). Primary trade partners for both countries. Comparable origins, same language. 70% of our TV content is piped directly from them...
...and our news services are NOT owned and controlled by the same shady 1%ers with the same agendas who really want the public NOT to know about the same things.

Yeah. We know them very well. Possibly better than they know themselves in some respects. News footage that they're blocked from having broadcast on their networks is usually allowed to air on ours.
I remember back when it was Bush Jr. running his "War in Iraq", we estimated about 40% of all camera footage, reports and other information coming back from the Middle East was NOT being permitted to air on any US station (and since we have access to both their stations and our own in Canada, it's not that hard to compare.) Mostly what wasn't being shared to the US homefront was news stories about US soldiers not exactly acting like noble heroes over there, and anything that made the president out to be a liar.
(Example: US channel: Bush: "Every allied country is behind us 100%!" Canadian channel: "Protesters take to the streets by the thousands in protest of President Bush's actions...")

Humon's depiction of our relationship is actually pretty good. We're like siblings from the same family who have grown up and moved (a bit) away from each other. They the more reckless and crazy brother, and we the more straight-laced, admittedly boring brother. TODAY our sib is quite the important big-shot, but WE still remember the time Mom caught him jacking off with her pantyhose and her bra on his head. We listen to him go on about how great he is with lidded eyes and a raised eyebrow. We know things about him he's worked hard to forget!

@Hinoron Oh.... Were you so upset with him? Did you cut his orange blob recently in the world fav. christmas movie? what a good brother https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/27/home-alone-2-trump-scene-cut-in-canada-angering-supporters
And how about your Father? Will Brexit give some impact to Canada?

@Golightly
If you read that article you linked, the movie was edited in 2014, cutting 8 minutes of non-plot-critical scenes in order to make the movie fit within a television schedule with commercials. Trump's very brief cameo was just part of that. He didn't become president until 2016 (and frankly, none of us thought he WOULD right up until election day. "They can't be THAT stupid, can they?" We all thought. (And no, they were not; the majority of Americans did not vote for him... but the votes of ordinary citizens count for almost nothing. The upper class wanted him in power, so president he became.))

We are not the "Leftists" that Trump Jr. is trying to use a 5 year old movie edit to stir up some news about some "agenda". We're not even in the same damn country as his "Left". No one in the US Democratic parties has the influence and connections (or, I would hope, the idiocy or the motivation to) have a Canadian TV station edit an old movie for their own benefit... and no persons of groups in Canada would have any motivation to invest money or attention, in such a pointless stunt.

In a very general sense, EVERY Canadian party is farther "left" (as in more liberal and less conservative) of the entire USA political spectrum. That doesn't mean OUR politics are part of THEIR politics or visa versa (and thank God for that!) We deal with the USA as one country to another; individual political parties are internal matters, and are not relevant to our international dealings.

As for Brexit... I suppose it's possible England's changing circumstance might have some impact on trade with Canada (as in, they might need to import more of "this" from us, or want to sell more of "that" to us, than they did before) but otherwise, no. We are two separate countries; allies, trade partners, historically related, certainly, but England's relationship with the rest of Europe doesn't have much of anything to do with their relationship to us.

Or to put it another way: We moved out of Dad's house a long time ago. :P

@Hinoron yeah.... It was in 2014, but that sensitive orange blob blamming Trudeau recently for that .
So... Canada don't have a daddy issue with the Brexit

@Golightly

Continuing the metaphor...

We moved out of Daddy's house decades ago. There's an ocean between us, so we really only see each other on Christmas. We mail him a card for Father's Day.
Apparently Daddy got into a new relationship in the last few years, and now is getting out of it. We haven't been real involved or attentive to it on our side of "the pond" (it has little to do with us, and we have our own problems to concern ourselves with on THIS continent). What was the chick's name again? "Europa"? "Europania?" or something? She sounds fat. :P

@Hinoron Pssstttt.... an old fat Europania :b

@Golightly
@Hinoron
It's so sad how this thread started out as lambasting the man who is a detriment to the long-time friendship between the u.s. and Canada, the man who has made horrible sexist comments, who is an open misogynist and the worst (open) misogynist either of us has had in power in a long time, and who has been accused of r*pe multiple times by multiple women, only for the both of you, not just one of you, but the both of you to end on the note of the misogynistic stereotype that a woman is only good and valuable if she's thin and young. You're both hypocritical. Do you also make jokes about your nagging mothers and crazy ex too?

Yes, America. As in you shall not lie to other people. And even if it isn't, God also said that any woman who loses her virginity before she's married must be executed so... yea.

@potatoe4life You shall not lie to men as you do women?