Reply #18: Yes, let's check them. [View All]

[trotsky]

Republicanism has:

- faith that there is something greater than man
- faith that man must strive (marketplace) to reach the paradise
- faith that man must be fixed (corrected of any opposition to free markets) to reach that paradise
- holy scriptures (Adam Smith, etc.)
- prophets (right-wing economists)
- factions among the belief (supply-side, etc.)
- fanatics (Randians)
- symbols (they've co-opted the American flag, etc.)
- music celebrating it (national anthems, country ballads, etc.)

I think you can see how ridiculous your "facts" are.

On edit: I see you added "denies the legitemacy of any and all other religions" after I posted. That doesn't even properly refer to religion in general, since many consider that there are multiple paths to god/enlightenment/whatever.