From: pn44@therixon.com   
      
       Odd to hear an American claim that idealism and social justice are   
   "religions" and that being a religion makes them wrong.   
      
       Americans aren't misunderstood, they are simply disliked.   
      
      
   "Pete Bayle"  wrote in message news:8d9486   
   d.0407291205.18621e5c@posting.google.com...   
   When I saw this quote below on Andrew Sullivan I was struck by the   
   concept of "social-democratic religion" accounting for the some of the   
   difference in world views between Europe and the US.   
      
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