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From: shad@teldata.UUCP (Warren N. Shadwick)
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Subject: Re: Brookings Ins Report on Religion in America
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 11:47:34 EST
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In article <2096@akgua.UUCP> rjb@akgua.UUCP (rjb) writes:

> The Brookings Institution has issued a report ...
> 
> 3) Through religion, "human rights are rooted in the moral worth
> with which a loving Creator has endowed each human soul, and 
> social authority is legitimized by making it answerable to a
> transcendent moral law."
> 
> [ This kind of harks back to the founders ideas doesn't it and
> has a particular Judeo-Christian slant ?]

I'll only quote Washington's farewell address to Congress ...

        "Of  all  the  dispositions  and  habits  which  lead  to 
   political prosperity, religion and morality are  indispensable 
   supports."
					     George Washington

> Mr Cornell stated that the Brookings Institution has generally been
> regarded as "liberal" over the years. [ Whatever that means ]

Isn't it the Brookings Institute who once advocated in a report that
everything in society belongs to the government and if the government
permits the people to retain anything it is considered to be a 'gift'
of the government?