Re: How many Christians are there in America?

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
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> Lee Ratner  <LBRatner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>     This OT for the newsgroup but considering the collective
>>knowledge and wisdom of the people here, I thought this is the best
>>place to clarify something that has been confusing me for years. Most
>>people here know that I am a Jew and an American. Growing up, I always
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>>point to Evangelical Christians as an example of this. Now are they
>>just using some definition of Christian that I am unaware of or is
>>something else going on?
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> For one thing, a lot of the people who say that "Christians" are
> a minority, persecuted or otherwise, are (as you indicate)
> Evangelicals or Pentecostals or some other Protestant sub-group,
> and they consider anyone outside that group to be not a
> Christian.  Whole categories of such people, for example, don't

Ghu, (Purple be His Name), yes. If you have any doubt as to what she's
saying, check out Chick Tracts, among the vilest pieces of filth I've ever
seen, for real, in this country. The Pope's the Antichrist (tm), Catholics
are Satanists, and everybody *other* than funnymentalists are evil, and we
won't *mention* about the rest of us.
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