"blujuju" <blujuju at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> news:Qqw59.14153$eb.1377336 at news2.west.cox.net...> : "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1Fg49.186
> : > > The problem with the credibility of Gallup's polls isn't the
> statistical
> : > > error or the subject matter they poll people on--it's with their OWN
> : > > internal jewish bias. And one of the WORST examples of their bias
is
> : > their
> : > > abortion polls http://christianparty.net/gallupabortion.htm> : >
> : > I wouldn't know about these things. The majority of Canadians are in
> : favour
> : > of equal rights for same sex marriages. Actually, I believe more
people
> : are
> : > in support of homosexuality than Atheism, which is truly disturbing.
> : >
> : >
> :
> : I suspect this is just another parsetree-ism, since you didn't even
bother
> : to try to cite your source.
> :
> : So let's break this down into understandable pieces. There are 1.9
> million
> : atheists in North America, which means that atheists are less than 0.7%
of
> : the population http://christianparty.net/christianpopulation.htm>> Let's just check some different sources for kicks, 'k?
>http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/atheist4.htm says nearly 30 million
> Americans are atheist.
>http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_prac2.htm says 77% claim Christian
> status. 33% other.
>http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/press/REVIEW/winter2002/easterbrook.htmsays
> 89% are religious, of various flavors. The above also says that Muslim is
> the fastest growing religion in America. Better watch out, eh?
>http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8797.htm says 8% of Americans are
> atheist.
>http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/cliffcuny.htm same site, different
> article states 17%
>> Getting the drift here, John?
> I have more sites/sources if you care to see them.
>> blu
>
So tell us, blu. When an advocacy organization like American Atheists
counts people who specify "no religion" as atheists and comes up with
"nearly 30 million atheists" or 10% of the population, do you believe them,
or do you believe the Encyclopedia Britannica's claim that less than 1% are
atheists may be more credible? http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001484.html
YOU tell US what you "think" it is: less than 1%, or 10%?
I mean, by their definition of "atheist", Thomas Jefferson was an atheist,
even though he wrote in his own hand "I am a real Christian".
http://christianparty.net/tj.htm
Which do you think it is, blu? Are men like Thomas Jefferson who didn't
blong to an organized church all "atheists", as American Atheist claims--or
do you believe the DIRECT word from a Christian like Mr. Jefferson himself?
John Knight
