Re: How many Christians are there in America?

On May 7, 9:59=C2=A0am, Jette <bossl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Harry Mary Andruschak wrote:
> > On May 6, 7:01=EF=BF=BDpm, mark <whitr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> >>> In article
> >>> <9e8d6af3-fc32-43f3-901e-fb082617c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> Lee Ratner =EF=BF=BD<LBRat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD This OT for the newsgroup but considering the
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> >>>> knowledge and wisdom of the people here, I thought this is the best
> >>>> place to clarify something that has been confusing me for years.
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> >>>> people here know that I am a Jew and an American. Growing up, I
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> >> <snip>
> >>>> 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?
> >>> 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. =EF=BF=BDWhole categories of such people, for example,
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> >> 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
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> >> seen, for real, in this country. The Pope's the Antichrist (tm),
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> >> are Satanists, and everybody *other* than funnymentalists are evil,
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> >> won't *mention* about the rest of us.
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> > I'm a Satanist? =C2=A0I hope this doesn't mean I have to give up my
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> You keep cats? =C2=A0That proves you're a witch!

Oh, I forgot about that. Hard to think of my 3 cats as Instruments Of
Evil. More like Instruments of Annoyance.