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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
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Subject: Re: Clearing it all up -Telling it like it is
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 10:05:10 EDT
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>> Rsk:  Why don't you want to believe this?  100,000 respondents makes
>> for a reasonably trustworthy survey, I should think; and in this
>> country, the majority of the religious people are Christians, and
>> probably the majority of the rest are Jews.
>> -- 
>> -- Jeff Sargent

> You religious bigot!  Sure Jeff, most of the so-called Christians
> are good and pious, while those atheistic, leftist Jews...  Tell
> me they control all the banks and the media while you're at it.
> Fact is, Jeff, there aren't that many Jews in the US.  Of them,
> some are devout (by their own standards of course, not Martillo's)
> and some are not.  Out of 100,000 people in the US, the overwhelming
> majority of *ANY* subsample will have been brought up nominally
> Christian, and I hope more tolerant of other religions than you are.
> --
> ken perlow

Whoa, Ken!  Slow down!  That funny taste in your mouth is your
own foot.  :-)

What Jeff said is that the majority of religious people in this
country are presumably Christian, and the majority of the rest
*of the religious people* are presumably Jews.  One more time:
The majority of the people who *are* religious, but *aren't*
Christian, are presumably Jews.  Got it?

Jeff's point was that almost all the religious people are from
the Judaeo-Christian tradition.  He made a positive observation
about *both* Christians *and* Jews.

Boy, did you get this one screwed up...

-- 

	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories