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To: Homer_J_Simpson
"Pope assailed in Moscow"

"In the current issue of Bezhbozhnik, organ of the Militant Atheists, Pope Pius is attacked as "an ally of the Anglo-French imperialists in seeking to extend the war..."

"...Attitude of Girl Condemned

"In the Komsomolskaya Pravda, V. Razorenova, instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth group, reports the case of a 17-year-old student in an intermediary school, who, he says, has been under the influence of Baptists, who have reared her in a spirit of religious fanaticism.

"What can be said of a school from whose wall emerges a person with deep-rooted nonsensical religious notions and blind faith in 'holy writings'? he asks...
The writer demands more speeches and agitation articles in the local press against religion.

"Fanatical" Baptists? Who knew? Kind of chokes me up...

And in what way, exactly, are our public schools today different from those?

12 posted on 03/28/2010 12:27:56 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
"Fanatical" Baptists? Who knew? Kind of chokes me up...

They are kind of like fanatical Episcopalians,without the fancy vestments.

And in what way, exactly, are our public schools today different from those?

Way different. Here they don't demand more speeches and agitation articles. They just call in the ACLU and sue.

13 posted on 03/28/2010 1:05:44 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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