Someone please tell me this is a joke ?

[Dicentra spectabilis]

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<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:

> I think it is more a question of cultural dissonance than anything 
> else. The public avowal of faith seems to be far more acceptable in 
> the US than in the UK. Just a whiff of it makes our toes curl, 
> borderline likely to make us very angry. We have an almost visceral 
> determination to think what we *** well like, and to reject any 
> attempt to suggest there is a common orthodoxy to which everyone 
> generally subscribes. 

I think you're exactly right: it's a cultural thing.  Perhaps because
in the U.S. we've never had a state religion?  I can see how that
could explain the different sensitivities.

--Dicentra