garys@bunkerb.UUCP (Gary Samuelson) (10/08/83)
("I wish I'd said that" department)
Alan Watt has stated the real problem very nicely. In case
some of you didn't read it because of the length of his article,
allow me to repeat it more briefly:
So the thing to watch is not whether we get a "Judeo-Christian state"
or a "Secular Humanist state" or a "Progressive Socialist state" so
much as what the powers of that state are goint to be. If the powers
are great, good intentions will count for very little. Government
power is already much too great; and the society is still full of groups
that want to add to that power if will benefit their pet goals.
Concentrate on reducing government power, or at least stopping the
increase of government power. The particular politics of whomever is
in power won't matter so much then.
- Alan S. Watt