I'm getting the news out so we won't end up like the european union having no religious freedom!
What?! I'm sorry to say this, but it's uninformed Americans who think they are the only "free" nation on the planet that get me the wrong way (see
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410198&pp=15)... and I've had contact with many in my work and stays over there... I'm not making a stereotype, but saying that uninformed people in general should really get their facts straight and look at what's happening around them in their own country too before coming out with blanket statments like the above.
First, do you know that the EU is not just Germany?
Second, there isn't just one federal law for the whole EU. Each member country has it's own laws too! Much like individual states. I don't know about Germany, but I do know about the UK.
In the UK we have religious freedom - it's not like the old days when the founding fathers left ya know! My niece is not a Christian, nor is my sister's family a Christian family... yet my niece learns about the Bible at school, what sin is etc etc. I'm quite amazed at times at things she says that she's learned at school. The only things I hear from the US are things Christian coming
out of schools. And when I was there last Christmas, there was soooo much about stores etc not wanting to use the words Happy Christmas... but Happy Holidays, or schools calling their plays "Winterfest" or something but having nothing of the nativity in them.
And in the UK I know of several home schoolers.
So don't lump in every country in the EU as being
the EU and all having the same standards etc, or make the US out as being all rosey!
Apart from that,
no offence meant
As to the merger, I hope it doesn't happen either, but with the way the world is going, the continuing weak dollar (and
http://www.amerocurrency.com/index.html) and the plans of world government, it possibly won't be so long