Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alan From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Clearing it all up -Telling it like it is Message-ID: <2645@allegra.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 10:05:10 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2645 Posted: Thu Jul 26 10:05:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 19:59:50 EDT References: <2012@hplabsc.UUCP> <161@uwmacc.UUCP>, <866@pucc-h>, <873@pucc-h>, <1074@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 38 >> 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