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Originally Posted by razoredge
No, I dont think people of other countries have a accurate account of the States, they only hear about or see the extremes. We try hard not to only see the extremes of other countries, but the press works that pretty hard as well. There is no story to sell in the average Americans daily life.
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Good point that I agree with. While journalists do play an important and vital role, and have done a great deal of good for this country, they also do a great deal of harm. Journalists want the juiciest, most emotionally appealing story. However, anyone who studies critical thinking and logic knows that appeals to emotion are fallacies and corrupt the rationale of a human's thought process. It persuades them to favor certain parties over others without presenting all the facts. Very few journalists in the big newspapers and magazines present all the facts. They each have their own agenda, and part of that agenda is raking in the cash. There are a lot of people on this forum who actually are loathe to admit this; but journalists can be crooks too (not all of them are, I realize; but even the ones who aren't still deny their readers a completely objective view).
Now, on the American Theocracy:
The word "pagan" has acquired a negative aura surrounding it, and it's because of the intolerant Christian movement (not only in America, but in several European countries as well). The MPAA and other censorship committees actually view things such as "occult" and "pagan" elements as offensive and criteria for rating or censoring (possibly even banning) an album. This frustrates me to no end. Paganism and Satanism have been lumped in together by the intolerance of Christianity (which doesn't even make sense; but then, little of it does). The censorship in this country is harmful to artistic integrity and is all because of the influence of Christianity in this nation. It's just as bad in other countries too. Gorgoroth can never play in Poland again (for now, anyway) because of their show where they raised crosses and had sheeps' heads impaled across the front of the stage. They were charged with crimes against religion. To be quite honest, the only crime against religion I can recall was when Urban II called for a march to take the holy land back from the heathen in 1095.