Griff wrote:
nirrti_rachelle wrote:
If this is just a small sample of how high school kids behave nowadays, I'm very worried. Are kids really that shallow and idiotic?
They've always been that way. How do you think that the Republican Party of America is even possible? How do you think that conservative Christianity came into existence?
I say have them neutered before they're old enough to breed. We've gotta control the population somehow.
No offense, no one dislikes the memes and mores of the conservative Xtian Right as I do, but I do believe the religious conservatism, as well as a general air of "moral" conservatism in the US, are largely due to the Puritans who came over from England to have their "religious freedom" but then founded that on judgmentalism and ostracizing those who deviate from the accepted norm.
I think the Republicans are more traditionally founded on $$$. However, now that has become enmeshed with the religious conservatism (although I don't know how many true religious conservatives there are in the government as opposed to just generally stupid and greedy people; they more often seem to use their "religiousness" as a platform for votes). But hey, that's just my perception.