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The hysteria over Obama's former pastor's attacks on America shows we're still in thrall to knee-jerk patriotism.
  • No the Jeremiah type is the problem

    I find it incomprehensible that a talk like his would be given in any religious meeting in the UK except perhaps in a mosque and the man who did it is in prison. Religious meetings are there to talk about the one on whom their faith is based and in this case Jesus Christ and I cannot remember him talking like this. Australia India China and Ireland all had unhappy and unpleasant past histories some worse than slavery but look at them now steaming ahead like an express train and very rarely talking about the past but looking excitedly to the future. Africa however always talking about white colonialism and look at its condition. The Australian has very little sympathy for the whinger and nor do I. The early years of my life were spent in poverty but I don,t keep going on about it.