Re: How many Christians are there in America?

Harry Mary Andruschak wrote:
> On May 6, 7:01pm, mark <whitr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> > In article
>> > <9e8d6af3-fc32-43f3-901e-fb082617c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> > Lee Ratner <LBRat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> >>  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
>> <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. 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.
> 
> I'm a Satanist?  I hope this doesn't mean I have to give up my cats

Perhaps you're only a Satinist, seriously into the worship of all those
satin robes the higher ups in the Church wear....

        mark