Certainly, whether the people have the liberty to act or not should be a factor in determining the level of responsibility they have. In the U.S., people have always had the freedom to at least speak up and condemn governmental acts they disapprove of. The vast majority of Christians were either supportive of or at least not vocally opposed to governmental reliance on Christianity as a justification for the subjugation and killing of native americans.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist
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