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Others foresee in the West Bank and Gaza not a mini-Syria but a mini- Lebanon: a hopelessly fractured and heavily armed society riven by civil war (here between the secularist P.L.O. and Islamic fundamentalists) simply dissolving into anarchy and chaos. Some are even predicting that Arafat may not live very long if he returns to Gaza, stronghold of the Islamic Hamas militants who revile him and reject any hint of coexistence with Israel...
There are several views about the cause of the perceived crisis. Unification Church officials agree that there is a government conspiracy to "get Reverend Moon." Dr. Lahaye in his testimony expressed concern that "secularist forces within the government [are] moving steadily and in an intruding way upon these [religious] freedoms." Professor Rice says he sees no active conspiracy, and believes the cause of the government's extended pursuit of Moon may have been "government stupidity...
...moral and spiritual values being taught in our schools generally reflect secularist views. Consider the antitheistic emphasis of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which students are often required to watch. Or the presentation of atheistic evolution propounded by Darwin as the only explanation for the origin of man. Or sex education. Why not throw us Christians a bone and give us a minute...
...saying Mass in sports shirts and some using French bread." Similar views are stated even more colorfully by the Wanderer, (circulation: 35,000), an extreme right-wing Catholic weekly published in St. Paul, which is said to be closely read in the Vatican. This month the paper thundered against "secularist sex education, dissident priests and theologians, politicized Catholic agencies and aberrant liturgies...
...everyone agrees with this stringently secularist approach. "If you take the symbol away from the celebration, it's almost a sterile, noncelebrative event," says Lynn Buzzard, executive director of the Christian Legal Society, adding that court attacks on Christmas scenes are "a trivialization of the Constitution." Henry Kinch, the current mayor of Pawtucket, agrees. "The A.C.L.U. wants to wring every bit of religion out of our daily life," he says. He will appeal the anti-crèche decision to the U.S. Supreme Court...