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I mean, this most materialist country on the face of the globe is also the most superstitious country this side of Iran.
These are the words of Jonathan Raban, a very popular author, originally English, who now lives in Seattle. Mother Jones interviewed him in an article called, My Holy War.
In case the link I created above doesn't work, here it is again:
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/02/jonathan_raban.html
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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Sorry to comment on my own article, but in explanation of what Raban is saying about superstition, here is another quote in the article:
Reason has been lost. We're not living now within a rational political context at all; the ways in which arguments are advanced are not by means of reason; they're questions of faith. And if you question that faith you're seen as being effectively an atheist. Running through the whole of the book is an argument, I hope, that rationalism has a place and so does realism, and that we're living under a faith-based administration that's dangerously fundamentalist and religiose in its own right, even as we're fighting an enemy that's fundamentalist and religiose in its own right.
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