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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: An apparent misconception about Sargent's article
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 09:37:11 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

I think what Jeff meant was:  the majority of the religious people in this
country are Christian, and the majority OF THE REST OF THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE
IN THIS COUNTRY are Jews.  At least, I hope that's what he meant...

[See how easy it is to hopelessly foul up what someone else has tried to say.]

OK?
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