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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Religious Bigot
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 13:51:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 13:51:47 1984
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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 were so quick to jump on Jeff's statement, one wonders whether you 
> bothered to consider other interpretations of what Jeff said.  It seems 
> obvious to me that what Jeff meant (and I ask him to verify this) was 
> "...The majority of the rest [of the religious people] are Jews".

>  Let's not call the kettle black, hm?

> 			Scott Berry

Yes, I called Jeff a religious bigot for the above remark.  I was *NOT*
quick to do it, though.  I carefully considered his words and their
logic--the majority of X are Y; the majority of the rest, logically
all not X, are Z.  It was a precise parallel construction.  If Jeff
means what several folks have been quick to tell me, he meant to say
"the majority of the religious people are Christians and Jews, mostly
Christians."  Or "the majority of r. p. are..., the largest minority
are..."  Something unambiguous like that.  If he really does mean this
then I do apologize.

As for calling cooking implements various colors, I have never
referred to my religious belief as the one and only truth.  When
someone does, my taking umbrage is not a lack of respect for the
belief, just the holder thereof--you know--hate the sinner but
love the sin.
-- 
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