[lbo-talk] 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 2 16:04:11 PDT 2003


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Twice today for the first time in weeks I checked the Trash folder
>before compacting it, and each time found an interesting post.

Catchy intro!


> I
>wouldn't have wanted to miss a chance to agree with Nathan, it happens
>so infrequently. But I think he is more or less right on this. In any
>case, as Marx & Engels both emphasized, you don't get rid of religion by
>direct attacks on it.

Could you explain to me how keeping the Ten Commandments out of public buildings is a "direct attack" on religion? People are and should be free to practice whatever spiritual nonsense they'd like to, just not on public property. Or do you think secular law should, say, criminalize adultery because the Old Testament says to?

Doug



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