The desire to be ignorant and out of touch with reality characterizes the majority of Americans and anyone who has traveled will know that most people in this world regard the US (perhaps too much) as a nation of self-righteous fools. This leads to many Americans wearing Canadian flags when they travel.

"Our civilization owes nothing to Israel and very little to Christianity; it owes nearly everything to pre-Christian antiquity (Germans, Druids, Rome, Greece, Aegeo-Cretans, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Babylonians.)