To be honest I'm not really into Christianity myself but I think your statement is a bit prejudice. For instance some people I've met in this country are total bastards and others are really nice; they're all British, but I wouldn't say 'but an English person is still an English person - or a white person is still a white person - or an Islamic person is still an Islamic person.

People are people and you always get nut jobs no matter what they decide to label themselves, but it's not fair to blanket label them. You can't compare an 'End of the World, we're all doomed' crackpot who's decided to proclaim our fate in the name of Christianity with the Vicar of Escrick village (just an example) who gives advice to grieving widows, helps out at the local hospital and raises money for Children in Need. Technically they're both Christians but you wouldn't call them the same. Furthermore I notice people always seem to use the lowest common denominator to a benchmark for the rest of a group, I mean why do people often choose the mentalist 'God Warrior' as an example of Christians over the vicar of Escrick-type people? Or why choose the infinitesimal minority of Islam-labelled terrorists as a sweeping example of Islam as so many people do, fuelled by the media no doubt, instead of the countless others living respectable lives?

It is funny to watch that woman proclaiming others are 'dark-sided' but, even though humans like to create 'them' and 'us' groups, it's not fair to use her as a typical example of a Christian because she is far from it. And it's even more unfair to millions of others to say 'ah maybe but a Christian is still a Christian in the end' like some antiquated Roman imperialist sending people off to be fed to the lions.

I usually find when people say they want to talk about religion, or when they say they hate religion etc, they usually mean Christianity.

As for all the different types being Christian, I think some of them are only Christian via their own declarations (The Jesus Army for instance) and would not be thought of as Christians by say the Smith family who go to church every Sunday.

P.S. Actually The Jesus Army is probably closer to the Smith Family than the End of the Worlders you see in town, who are the very thinnest end of the wedge.

I think it was Thomas Jefferson who decided that religion should be allowed in America no matter what the domination, but it had no place in politics and should not be allowed to influence the government and how the country runs. I think he was sort of into God as a spiritual entity, but didn't hold much truck with the idea of Jesus, walking on water and all that stuff - other than being a nice story and Jesus being a real person but not definitely the son of God. I think he had quite a modern, before his time, way of thinking about God - like many people do today, i.e. they like God, pray to God sometimes and generally believe in a God, but think religion as such is a waste of time at best and down right dangerous at its worst.

I'm not sure what he'd think of all the "God Bless America" politics of today.

Still, though he did envision freedom for all Americans, he did have a lot of slaves still as well who were not included/protected by the DoI. Though he did plant the seed of such thoughts in everyone's mind, which meant it was inevitable that the slaves would also want the same freedoms before too long. Incedentally, I think a lot of the slaves in America turned to religion as a way of gaining the freedom originally denied them by the Declaration.

P.S. I don't like Palin or the other guy who's name no one can remember. If I was American I'd vote Obama, even if it were only because he's not the other lot, because I like the way he comes across.

Well it's good to know some things about American history, I caused quite a family uproar whilst driving around New York by saying I'd never heard of Alexander Hamilton.