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Seems to be at least 3 interesting themes in this. Religious beliefs in the USA, the validity of religious beliefs and global warming. An interesting sub plot to do with bad teeth and the NHS made a brief and to me confusing appearance so I will ignore that.
There are many polls and yes polls can be and are massaged but I have never seen one that indicated that the USA population is not largely religious. After 9/11, sales of Bibles went up 27%. That is not a poll but sales figures and it seems to indicate something even if just religious coping.
As long as religion encourages people to be moral, ethical and good to each other I see no harm in it. Because people do bad things in the name of religion does not make the religion bad, it makes the acts bad. By the way I do not believe in God but do regard myself as religious.
It still seems that the judicious approach to global warming would be to be cautious and conservative. Lets take care of our home and all that live here, not only people
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