Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!adagio.panasonic.com!nntp-server.caltech.edu!keith From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.atheism2147483640 Subject21474836: Re: >>>>>>Pompous ass Date: 4 Apr 1993 09:39:16 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 226 Message-ID: <1pmac4INNm96@gap.caltech.edu> References: <1ou4koINNe67@gap.caltech.edu> <93085.023529MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> <1p3pj6INNc5f@gap.caltech.edu> <93087.180735MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> <1p66ueINNasp@gap.caltech.edu> <93088.051755MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> <1p72bkINNjt7@gap.caltech.edu> <93089.050046MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> <1pa6ntINNs5d@gap.caltech.edu> <93089.215438MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> <1pftrbINN3n9@gap.caltech.edu> <93092.091713MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lloyd.caltech.edu writes: >>Many people would probably think (especially if the fanatics propogandized >>this) that this was a conflict between the atheists and the religious. >>Many would get the impression that we were trying to outlaw religion, if >>we contintue to try to remove all things with a religious reference. >That's not what the people I've asked think. Perhaps you would be right >if you said the fundamentalists would think this way; after all, they think >they are being oppressed when they are not allowed to oppress. However, >you have not shown where you get this idea that 'many' people would >'probably' think it's atheism vs. religion, winner take all. As far as I can >tell, it is your groundless prediction that this will happen. But you haven't taken into the account of propoganda. Remember, if you asked Germans before WWII if the Jews shoudl be slaughtered, they would probably answer no, but, after the propoganda machine rolled through, at least some were able to tolerate it.