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From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: School prayer
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Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 10:27:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 26 10:27:37 1984
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26 March 1984.

>>	  Brad Miller (ccieng2!bwm):
>>	  "Religion has been used FAR TOO LONG as a tool to control
>> the ignorant."

	But Brad, hasn't it been stated time and again that
religion is the 'opiate of the masses'?  
	Public schools today are being battered by right-wing
fundamentalists' desires to have THEIR particular values taught
to the exclusion of others'.  This is not right, as freedom of
speech and thought are in danger of being stifled.
	Has anyone seriously thought about the parallels between
the Moral Majority's attempt to coerce America's children via
'prayer in schools' (which is all a political crock, anyway)
and Lenin's statement "Give me the children for four years (long
enough to get my particular beliefs in), and I will have them for
life." ?  Grab Richard Mitchell's book "The Graves of Academe"
if you are at all interested.
	Comments welcomed, to the net or to me directly.
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