I cannot imagine why this Lutheran Roots list should be subjected to the socialistic, one-world government propaganda of UNESCO. If this is your purpose, you can drop my name off the list. Manifesto is certainly an appropriate title. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- from F.R. Duplantier, America's Future, Inc. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established in 1946, and promptly started to propagandize on behalf of "world citizenship." In an early series of pamphlets entitled Towards World Understanding, UNESCO denounced parents of all nationalities for instilling patriotism and love of country in their children. "As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism," the UNESCO pamphlets declared, "education in world-mindedness can produce only precarious results." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Ed Fuelner, Heritage Foundation "The Reagan White House withdrew from UNESCO largely because the agency had become totally politicized, focusing its debates on disarmament, 'collective rights,' regulating the free flow of information, and other largely anti-U.S. themes," says Feulner. http://www.execpc.com/~jfish/afuture/070995b2.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the UNESCO Philosophy Forum 1996 "Following the model of religious claims that human beings are made in the image of God, philosophical universalism claims that the presence of common traits testifies to a common purpose. It says that the form of the ideal human community can be determined by reference to a universal human nature. " " I can sum up this point as follows: an answer to the question "who are we?" which is to have any moral significance, has to be one which takes money into account. Marx may have overstated when he identified morality with the interests of an economic class, but he had a point. That point is that a politically feasible project of egalitarian redistribution of wealth, requires there to be enough money around to insure that, after the redistribution, the rich will still be able to recognize themselves - will still think their lives worth living. The only way in which the rich can think of themselves as part of the same moral community with the poor is by reference to some scenario which gives hope to the children of the poor without depriving their own children of hope. " http://www.unesco.org/phiweb/uk/2rpu/rort/rort.html