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

To: Scott Bergquist who wrote (15516)	6/4/2003 1:10:30 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 28931

"I can never keep this straight.... was the American revolution fought in America, or England?" LOL!!!!!! OH, GAWD!!!!! I think it reflects "learning" in our society. I don't think education in this country ever was that great- -although it probably used to be better than it currently is. This country has a long history distrust of and disdain for education and intellectuals. Churches stuck to issues of morality and the Biblical questions. Pretty largely true from the Scopes trial until Roe v. Wade. The churches felt that they had been made to appear idiots as a result of Scopes and stayed out of public affairs. Abortion, though, was a "hot button" issue and got them back into political involvement. So how do we get the genie back in the bottle? The United States Constitution is merely something a vast majority of US citizens regard as a painful headache in their past There have been numerous polls done through the years about support for the principles in the Bill of Rights. Sometimes one or more of the statements is presented with the language modernized; sometimes the question involves specific applications such as "Should Communist be allowed to publicly advocate their principles?" or "Should atheists be allowed to publicly advocate their principles?" The Bill of Rights invariably loses.