I received this comment yesterday and thought that the statement made was one that most Americans need to hear and understand. That the United States is the most religious country on the planet and, in my opinion, the most hypocritical.

The lesson to be learned from the enclosed comment is that we would be far better off if we could further separate our churches from our state.

As a Belgian, it is crazy to see how religious lot’s of Americans still are. How can you base your entire life on a book, and say that everybody else should follow this book. Girls have sex with their father, young girls are being raped, people get 969 years old, people move the sun,…
Why is the bible better than, let’s say the Koran? It is the same god you know.
Why are you right, and not the animalists from Africa, or the Incas, or the taoists,…? Everybody has the right to choose it’s own religion, but not to impose it on others.
It can make you feel better (or worse) inside your head, but it does not explain anything in this world.

Religion belongs in church or at home, not in public or government, that should change in the US.
In Belgium for example:
- if you have a public function for the government, you can’t wear religious symbols
- in government buildings, no religious symbols may be present
- state and church are separated, no ‘In god we trust’ or ‘I swear to god’ in court
- atheists are not considered pariahs
- 55% of the population is religious
- 4% goes to church on a weekly bases
- 50% of the couples gets married in church
- 40-45% baptizes its children
- 20% of the religious people, believes in creationism, 16% old earth, 4% new earth.
Religious and non-religious people live together without any problems and without one group thinking it is morally superior to the other.

Let’s hope things get a little better in the following years…