From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!kpno!arizona!tom
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Title: Freedom and Religion
Article-I.D.: arizona.1485
Posted: Wed Mar 30 11:55:48 1983
Received: Fri Apr  1 06:03:17 1983

One interesting item which came out of CSNET's POLI-SCI digest was that the
difference between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. was that the U.S. claimed to
have freedom of's (religion, speech, etc.) whereas the U.S.S.R. claimed to
have freedom from's (poverty, ignorance, hunger, etc.)  It seems to me that
numerous religious fundamentalists have something fundamentally in common
with one of their opposition (U.S.S.R.), namely, freedom from.  Freedom
from pornography (Utah), freedom from being taught evolution, etc.