From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!tekmdp!azure!toddv Newsgroups: net.misc Title: We're coming comrade! Article-I.D.: azure.986 Posted: Tue Jun 22 12:35:00 1982 Received: Mon Jun 28 01:33:40 1982 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