There's a carpet retailer in here in Tennessee that has, for years, used little children spouting "Made in the USA" catchphrases and waving cheap plastic flags in their commercials. Well, now they've hit upon a new gimmick- claiming that their carpet was made "by the Heavenly Father." *head-desk* I sorta want to go into their business and demand
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I unfortunately was born here, from the only Roman Catholic family in town (my mother converted to Eastern Orthodoxy many years ago). My family, thank goodness, never tried to push religion on me, but there was certainly a lot of push from outside sources. The town I live in is mostly populated by uneducated, upper-lower class white people who are easily frightened by anything that they don't understand and don't believe anything that is told to them unless a family member or member of their church is doing the telling (and once they hear it from them, nothing can convince them otherwise). I cannot wait to leave here. I had to move back home after college, and I've been trying to move away ever since. I lived in Atlanta for a time, looking for a job, but had to move back here when I ran out of money and still had no job.
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I'm surrounded by it in Texas.
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And the college kids are just as religious. (sort of. like..they drink and sleep around and stuff but Jesus will save them! Lots of unwed moms.)
I've lived in Austin and now the Dallas suburbs.
I grew up in the Northeast U.S. I grew up with people of all religions. We were NEVER intrusive like the christians here, and it seems they're ALL evangelical.
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Within 5 blocks: 8 more churches.
Lemme tell ya, when the bells ring on Sunday, there's NO sleeping in!
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I think I would like to hear the bells in Germany. When I went to Europe many years ago, I regretted that we didn't get to go there.
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I'm also ashamed that Murfreesboro, where I went to college, is the focus of the "Unwelcome in America" CNN documentary about the irrational fears people have about having mosques in their town. I saw some of the clips, and they broke my heart. This crazy lady got up at the town meeting and started saying that, "This is the start! They're starting to infiltrate so they can KILL US!!!" without realizing that the mosque has been in Murfreesboro for almost 30 years without any problems and just wants to build a new facility instead of being next to the frickin' bowling alley. The college campus, which feels like the majority of the town, is very open and accepting to a very diverse population of students, many of whom counter-protested the anti-Muslim vocal townsfolk. The older people in M'boro have the attitude of "Kids are stupid. They let their feelings think for them. They don't know what the "real world" is like."
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