[Aliska]

Can you imagine hearing these words in the United States of America? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I'm leery of any religious people who get cranked up and chant in the streets. Remember the chant, "Give us Barrabas?"

Religion is quiet and personal with me and with a lot of other Americans. It's the way you live your life and not shows of solidarity in the streets.

I know most won't like what I said but I had to say it.

[Salvation]

Aliska, you do have a point here. I guess I was just thinking it would be nice to speak the name of God openly (and not get it bleeped out) on the street, in our stores, in the media, in the schools, etc.

[nickcarraway]

You have to remember the situation in Poland: religion had been supressed for so long.

[ventana]

I am not leery of a people whose religious freedom was pent up for so long that they gave unanimous voice to those feelings. I am relieved (but guarded) that we are as yet not there. V's wife.

[Rita289]

Religion is quiet and personal with me and with a lot of other Americans. It's the way you live your life and not shows of solidarity in the streets.

The culture of the United States is so much different than Polish culture. For the Polish people, their way of life, their faith, their patriotism and their identity as a nation is completely intertwined. When they did not have a country to call their own, they kept their Polish identity by keeping their faith, even during times it needed to be suppressed. To express their faith in solidarity in public for them is a true expression of freedom in their country.

[Aquinasfan]

Religion is quiet and personal with me and with a lot of other Americans. It's the way you live your life and not shows of solidarity in the streets.

Why can't it be both?