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Originally Posted by Kevin
Were Americans always so ignorant as to choose to believe in things other than proven scientific fact, or is this a new thing? I live at religious fundamentalist ground zero. Some of these people are downright scary.
If you can be taught to believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that Jesus rode around on t-rexes, then you can pretty much be told to believe anything.
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It's not an American thing, it's a superstition thing. That is not to say it is necessarily a religious thing, but religions that do expect you to believe what you're told and ignore evidence to the contrary are guilty of using it.
Has been around for a long time, before America, hell before Rome.