Phatscotty wrote:waauw wrote:pimpdave wrote:This thread used to get bumped at consistent intervals. It's been dormant for awhile, but it should never truly die.

And hey limeys! Britain is no longer #1! Haha, you lost your empire and we pretty much took it over!
And as has happened to so many other empires, and which will happen to the US too probably:
imperial overstretch ==> bankruptcy ==> fall of empire
america's empire is already growing weaker and other nations like China and India are rapidly gaining strength
From bondage to spiritual faith.
From spiritual faith to great courage.
From courage to liberty.
From Liberty to abundance.
From abundance to complacency.
From complacency to apathy.
From apathy to dependence.
From dependence back to bondage.
While I hesitate to respond to this childish poem, in fear of giving it any kind of credibility whatsoever...
I would say you and others are more trying to reverse the positive growth due to education, and instead push a:
Spiritual ignorance to practical ignorance trend.
Not to mention, your so called spiritual leaders of the day, used their faith to justify bondage....and the ones who are the most "spiritual" regionally....were the biggest "bondagers" of them all.
It was freedom of religion, which very much includes freedom from it that removed us from bondage, not the other way around.