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From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: secular humanism banned in schools
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 18:48:06 EDT
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The indoctrination at the sunday-school level is sickening & insidious.
As a child, I attended protestant sunday school where
we learned the following "facts":

       1.  The Jews killed Jesus (Romans?  No, they killed Christians
                                  with lions, right?)

       2.  Catholics worship idols

This is NOT a foaming-at-the-mouth holy-roller neo-fundamentalist
establishment.  It is a very conservative, old, upper-middle class
congregation made up primarily of "educated" people, who just happen
to find it necessary to propagate their bigotry in the guise of religious
education.  

Jerry Foolall may be public about his mythconceptions, but at least
it's on television -- so he's got enough rope for his own neck.
Perhaps its a good thing that Mr. Remnant Foosball has such a great
opportunity to speak his "mind".  This way, those among us who have
undergone the early poisoning of the subconscious with bigoted "facts"
are challenged to either stand with the Fool and all his folly -- or
against him.  It also encourages those who agree with the guy to do
so OPENLY, rather than in hushed-you-don't-want-to-offend-Mrs.-Greenburg-
next-door tones behind Mrs. Greenburg's back.  With the fools all
talking so loud, and saying such stupid things, we all know who
they are, don't we?  I say let them keep talking.  Goad them into
advocating clearly un-American activities like curtailing free 
speech and freedom of religion.  Encourage your friends to laugh 
AT them.  Let them ban books, then sell banned books real cheap
on the street corner.  Their bans are illegal -- unconstitutional
in fact.  In order to jail you for selling banned books, they would
have to overthrow the government.  AHA! you see?  All of those
foosball remnants out there advocate the overthrow of OUR constitutional
government!  Those pernicious slime-molds!  First they infest
our churches with their bigotry about our fellow Judeo-Christians.
Then they cunningly curry the favor of local and national politicians.
Then they think they can get away with taking away my right to
freedom of speech and freedom of religion.  Who do they think
they are, GOD or something?  I think that they should confine
their lies and sedition to their own church-schools, for their own
good.  Damn radical pseudo-conservative toadies...