BTW, folks, the bill about the pledge of allegiance is back on track in the VA legislature. Warren Barry was mollified by a compromise that allows the students of parents to explain their positions thereby keeping them from being suspended. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:13 AM Subject: Re: spineless pinko's update
>Michael Pollak says:
>
>>It's only compared to today that I was saying that religion played
>>an inordinately bigger role in determining one's life chances.
>
>Criticism of Roger Finke and Rodney Stark has to be better than the
>above, in that they are comparing the USA today not with early
>Puritan settlements but with _Revolutionary_ America (their book's
>title is _The Churching of America, 1776-1990_). In other words, we
>are talking about Tom Paine's America (the late 18th century -- the
>period of revolts and revolutions!), not William Bradford's
>America....
>
>Yoshie
>