[net.misc] We're coming comrade!

toddv (06/22/82)

I happened across this and found it unnerving:
     
     "In a survey conducted recently, students at a nationally 
     known liberal arts college were asked to identify the following
     two statements:

     1.  `The church shall be seperate from the State, and the school
         shall be seperate from the church.'
 
     2.  `[The government] shall make no law respecting an Establishment
         of religion, or [its] free exercise...'

     Of the students surveyed, 68% wrongly identified the first statement
     as an excerpt form the United States Constitution, and 86% agreed
     with it.  It is actually from the 4th Article of the Soviet Constitution.

     Only 43% were able to identify correctly the second statement as an
     excerpt from the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution.

     Just a reflection of common misconceptions regarding the `seperation
     of church and state.'"

Make of it what you will, but if you feel like flaming just mail it to me.

                                  Todd Vierheller
                                  teklabs!tekmdp!azure!toddv

katic@sri-unix (07/02/82)

This is am excerpt from the book "The Rape of the A*P*E*" by Allan Sherman.  In

many ways, it is one of the best books I've ever read.  Judge for yourself:

	   On July 20 1970, <Miami Herald> reorter Collin Dangaard typed up a
	verbatim copy of the Declaration of Independence, leaving out only the
	signatures, and approached citizens on the streets of Miami, asking them
	to sign it.  Two called the document "Commie junk."  One said, "Be
	careful who you show that antigovernment stuff to."

	   Dangaard then submitted the Declaration to 300 young adults at a
	Youth for Christ meeting, asking them to describe what kind of person
	would author such a statement.  Among thier answers were:
	   "A Communist, someone against our country."
	   "Someone who does not have any sense of responsibility."
	   "A redneck revolutionist."
	   "Someone ought to tell the FBI about this kind of rubbish."

Yes, I feel this is a representative example of the way in which the people of
this country have lost sight of the ideals under which we were set up.

katic	(....!nsc!katic)