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I was noticing a prevailing trend regarding your perception of society. It was affecting your ability to look honestly and without bias at your own society. As an outsider coming into America, the puritanical ideals - good and bad - are plainly obvious. I've been on the receiving end of some some socially rperessive ideas that have nothing to do with Christianity per se and everything to do with the puritanical foundations.
You also had earlier expressed a disbelief in the idea of collective psychology. If you fail to accept that reality, then it follows that you wouldn't accept realities like Judeo-Christian social foundations.
This has nothing to do with religious belief, and everything to do with anthropolopgy and sociology. That collective psychology exists is indisputable. It's historicly proven that the past affects a nations present mindset.
Your bias appeared to be from a desperate need to seperate your own values from Christianity. I have no doubt that your personal views are removed from Christianity and that you've honestly sought to find morality with foundations outside the Judeo-Christian worldview. You are however a product of your society, and your negative reaction away from the foundations is alone a result of your society. You cannot reject that which you are unaware of.
I mean no disrespect, and if I am offending you I apologise unreservedly and will cease talking anymore about the subject. I do not seek to be enemies with you, and wish to voice my respect for you, however much we may disagree.
Peace.
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Yorick.
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