[Ymani Cricket]

You can't put those countries BACK to the Dark Ages - they never left.

I don't doubt that. I was referring to us. If we suggest taking over other countries and forcing them to convert...it returns US to the dark ages.

It feeds the fires that oppose us. Point taken though.

[ppaul]

.....it returns US to the dark ages.

We cannot return. We were never there!

Why? Because up until the 1960's, we were a Christian nation. As Ronald Reagan said of us, "You are a city upon a hill." America shined a beacon of hope and freedom to the world because America's foundation was built upon the bedrock of Christianity and its principles, which even dieists and agnostics recognized. And, when America unashamedly declared that heritage, nobody dared do what the bastards did to us on 9-11.