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A short op-piece by a BBC reporter talks about what is seen as an increasingly widening gap between Euro-American relations. Choice quotes: "America is fast becoming a nation of faith not fact. A nation where the unpleasant aspects of human existence are simply airbrushed away...Of course, we all know how much more religious Americans are, but the crucial point, it seems to me, is that the kind of religious beliefs on the march in America tend to be those stressed in the book of revelation rather than the sermon on the mount." ( Full article in here... )