Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: An apparent misconception about Sargent's article Message-ID: <921@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 09:37:11 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.921 Posted: Thu Jul 26 09:37:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 20:03:50 EDT References: <2012@hplabsc.UUCP> <161@uwmacc.UUCP>, <866@pucc-h>, <873@pucc-h> <1074@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 28 > >> 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? -- WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rich Rosen WHAT IS YOUR NET ADDRESS? pyuxn!rlr WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA? I don't know that ... ARGHHHHHHHH!