Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00241)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Unfortunately, their influence is still very strong in the academic 
> community in the United States, and their influence on the 
Democratic 
> Party is about as strong as the influence of the Christian 
> fundamentalists on the Republican Party, and just as dangerous to 
people 
> who believe that there is an inherent right to freedom of thought.

Well, that is all news to me. It still seems to me there is a huge 
difference, both qualitative and quantitative, betweem a difference 
of opniion about whether Canada was right to start a National Health 
Service and fear of World War III. The first has to do with fear of 
socialism and the second with fear of communism. I think it is 
reasonable to say that the first is by far the lesser fear and that 
the greater has happily disappeared.