in the present. The creationism is taught at school from the very beginning of school, in each year, through the religion class; in the same time, the evolution of species is first mentioned in the biology class only in the eighth grade. As a result, 74% of the Romanian pupils consider that creationism is right and only 14% have this opinion about evolution.

In Romania public funds are used to build one of the largest orthodox cathedrals in Europe. Besides this, each year, there are 2000 churches that receive public funds to be built. The orthodox symbols are present in almost every classroom and in almost every public institution.

Out of the total population of around 20 million people, only 0.4% are non-religious. Out of 588 Members of the Parliament,The United States and the monarchies of the GCC have often been portrayed as strange bedfellows. On the one side is the presumed "leader of the free world", a society that stands for liberty, opportunity, and inclusiveness ; on theother, countries where the right to vote, if any, is at the discretion of the ruler, and where intolerance and abuse of human rights is too often the norm. At the heart of the dissonant relationship, the narrative asserts, is oil - a commodity for which Americans have paid dearly, in currency, but also in long lines at gas stations when the rulers of these monarchies decided to use it as a weapon of economic warfare in 1973, or when its revenue indirectly funded the most devastating terror attacks