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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Ban coffee?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:38:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-31, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:55:38 -0600, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>On 2025-03-30 4:10 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-30 3:50 p.m., Graham wrote:
>>>> On 2025-03-30 1:05 p.m., Bruce wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> Why do Scandinavia and the Netherlands always win everything?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scandinavian countries are mostly secular.
>>>>>
>>>>> That shows, once again, that religion holds people back. It has a
>>>>> retarding effect.
>>>>>
>>>> Stats show that the USA is increasingly secular but even if they
>>>> were in the minority, the religious would still dominate.
>>> 
>>> Secular has more to do with the official relationship between the church 
>>> and the state, or lack thereof. The church is still quite prominent in 
>>> Scandinavia. Denmark has a Evangelical Lutheran Church is the state church.
>>> 
>>But how many attend?
>
> 3% regularly. This confirms my theory that the bigger a country is,
> the more retarded its population is. My other theory is that the
> further people live from the ocean, the more retarded they are. These
> two theories combined explain fly-over Americans.

There are plenty of non-retarded people in flyover country.  _Somebody_
has to keep civilization going.

We're wildly outnumbered by retards, except in enclaves like
college towns and big cities.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton