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Subject: how I would love to live in a secular country again

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Ian (Australian living in Brazil)

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Date Posted: 13:01:55 12/24/04 Fri
In reply to: yeah 's message, "Kevin (U.S.)" on 09:58:50 12/24/04 Fri

I have no problem with people celebrating the religion of their choice (as long as they don't start nailing each other up on bits of wood to celebrate Easter, I guess), just as I have no problem with them playing the sport of their choice or wearing the fashion of their choice: it's none of my business as long as it doesn't start invading public life.

Australia is very much a secular country: any Australian politician who starts talking publicly about god will basically be limited to that very small percentage of people that let religion cloud their thinking on important issues.

Unfortunately, Brazil is far more medieval in this sense: not only do politicians go on about god all the time, but the catholic bishops always stick their oar in to try and influence public policy, and no one ever seems to tell them to mind their own business. People even have little nativity scenes in their living rooms.

I love a good story, but these people seem to treat Bible tales as if they actually happened, which is disturbing. I assume they are the same ones who knit booties for the babies in soap operas. I have a good mind to create my own "Macbeth Day" and set up a little scene over in the corner by the pot plants with the three witches, Banquo's ghost, Lady Macbeth trying to wash her hands, Burnam Wood coming to Dunsinane, and so on. Now *there* is a story that deserves to be remembered.

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