I would know because last time I checked I scored 5 more than you on the modern test, IMHO you lack objectivity.
Secondly Judeo-Christian values and whatever else comes with it is not on my priority list. I think that a great achievement of Christainity is that it has been able to seperate church from state, which Islam has been unable to do and hence threatens the world order.
There is no doubt US is a strong nation, but the moot question is that should one take it for granted or should one strive to make it stronger?
<< Judeo-Christian values and whatever else comes with it is not on my priority list. >>
Too bad, given that all of Modern Human Civilization descends from Judeo-Christian values and principles, tenets and teachings and the adherence to, maintenance of and defense of Judeo-Christian values are all that set the United States of America apart from and above and ahead of every other trailing-in-our-wake state.
Conversely, every current chink in America's armor exists as the direct consequence of its lumpen politicians [Of whom, at every level, we also have many many scores of thousands] and other panderers failure to recognise that simple Truth and is the further consequence of those un-and-anti-Americans' anti-Christian consessions to Barbarism's "multi-culturalism" and other Trojan Horses.
Similarly -- and until all are willing to acknowledge Judeo-Christianity's Truths and that it is they that provide our Nation's very Foundation and ensure the strengths of its Law and its edifices, institutions and walls -- and themselves go back to basics [And, watch out, there are already more than two-hundred million Chinese Christians!] -- its every envy-motivated, hatred-engined and rage-driven, heperophobic wanna-be's squalid state will never be but the shallowist of Xerox copies of our Greatest-ever Nation.
Bringing America down to the level of relative squalor into which the rest of the world has dug itself will advance no state, no People and Mankind not one millimetre.
And in the meanwhile all may ponder that it was and is Judeo-Christianity's Laws and Principles and Tenets and FReedoms that have seen to the creativity, innovation, productivity and industry best witnessed in the United States of America -- and that virtually every noteworthy Human accomplishment -- ever! -- has been built on that foundation.
Laws and Principles and Tenets and FReedoms, that is, such as those that have seen to the advance of theory concerning, creation, innovation, invention, production and/or construction of such of Mankind's great benifits as Evolutionary Theory, FReedom, the Principle of Individual Liberty, "trains, planes, cars, rockets, satellites, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, light bulbs, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and [Judeo-Christian] spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Watt, Michelin, Jefferson, Washington, FRanklin, Darwin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, Cessna, Boeing, and other "dead white [Christians]."*
Five more, eh?
HehHehHeh ....
Very good.
But five points more, pray tell, dear fellow 'Ninety-Niner' -- and given that I was but vague about my "modern" score -- [Couple of double dashes for yah ongoing entertainment, there] than what?
And please don't mistake my FRequent foolishness and habitual irreverance for the absence of objectivity. Think of it rather as the wilful employment of subjectivity as a means to provoke interesting Men like you -- and to relieve boredom.
Blessings -- Brian
[*With apologies to another of America's geniuses whose bent also is for conFRontation: Michael Savage: http://newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/12/15/53812 ]