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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15510)	6/4/2003 11:31:03 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Two thirds of American adults favor the banning of hate speech. This troubles many civil rights supporters." The reason they are troubled is not because they enjoy hate speech, it's because people will mislabel disagreement with hate.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15510)	6/4/2003 11:55:00 AM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I think it reflects "learning" in our society. Public schools used to be the best, unbiased source of information, with newspapers and publications adding their more infrequent input. Churches stuck to issues of morality and the Biblical questions. In present times, public schools have a minimal impact on the minds of youth, and once graduated, lessons of civics and history are forgotten in the barrage of "Did you see J-lo" and other hopelessly trivial crap. Minds are crowded with a barrage of television, radio, music, magazine covers. Churches feel compelled to be "proactive" in recruitment and civic activities. They will get "hip" and do things, advocate things as necessary, to boost the paying membership. After all, Islam is growing faster in numbers that Christianity. In this "ocean" of dubious 'information', is it any wonder that people would seek a "ban" on "bad stuff"? The United States Constitution is merely something a vast majority of US citizens regard as a painful headache in their past, a sliver in their social life in high school. "History? Ugh, I hated it." I recall a friend of my brother's, when in her forties, asked him, "I can never keep this straight.... was the American revolution fought in America, or England?"