"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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>> "blujuju" <blujuju at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:aj65ot$19270b$1 at ID-152937.news.dfncis.de...> >
> > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> > news:Qqw59.14153$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.htm> says
> > 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
>
If Mr. Jefferson was such a Christian, explain these three quotes:
1. Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800:
"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and engrafted into the
machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil
and religious rights of man."
2. Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson's Works, Vol. IV:
"The hocus-pocus fantasy of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and
three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and
thousands of martyrs."
3. Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to William Short:
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find
in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They
are all alike; founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men,
women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt,
tortured, fined, and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion?
To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support
roguery and error all over the earth."
===
Yet another one of your fantasies shot to shit, JK.
The Shadow Dancer
