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I certainly don\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \
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I certainly don\\\'t see much of an American influence - puritanism and fundementalism are \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' unique to the US, and Nugganism isn\\\'t really \\\'\\\'that\\\'\\\' similar to the Religious Right. In fact, if you were going to draw a US parallel in Monstrous Regiment, surely it would be Ankh-Morpork, the rich superpower that gets involved in a war on the other side of the Disc because it sees itself as the world\\\'s policeman.
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I certainly don\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \
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I certainly don\\\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \\\"unique\\\" compared to the varieties of fundementalism popular elsewhere are \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' reflected in Nugganism, and America certainly didn\\\'t invent religious zealotry in general.
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I certainly don\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \
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I certainly don\\\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \\\"unique\\\" compared to the varieties of fundementalism popular elsewhere are \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' reflected in Nugganism. In particular the tragedy of Borogravia is that it\\\'s too poor relative to its enemies to fight them, and does so anyway. Since the main criticism of US involvement in wars is rather the reverse...
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I certainly don\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \
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I certainly don\\\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \\\"unique\\\" compared to the varieties of fundementalism popular elsewhere are \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' reflected in Nugganism. In particular the tragedy of Borogravia is that it\\\'s too poor relative to its enemies to fight them, and does so anyway. Since the main criticism of US involvement in wars is rather the reverse...
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I certainly don\'t see much of an American influence, unless the original troper is claiming strict religion is a phenomenon unique to the US. In particular the tragedy of Borogravia is that it\'s too poor relative to its enemies to fight them, and does so anyway. Since the main criticism of US involvement in wars is rather the reverse...
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I certainly don\\\'t see much of an American influence - the elements of US evengelicalism that make it \\\"unique\\\" compared to the varieties of Puritanism popular elsewhere are \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' reflected in Nugganism. In particular the tragedy of Borogravia is that it\\\'s too poor relative to its enemies to fight them, and does so anyway. Since the main criticism of US involvement in wars is rather the reverse...
