"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
>news:uts0nuk9k0r76t9t9ahqhv04lvn7ohor3k at 4ax.com...>> "John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>> >According to Gallup, 86% of Americans are members of Christian churches,
>>>> Yep. I'm a member of 3 different Christian Churches.
>>So what? Are you really so arrogant or stupid that you'd think that your
>being a member of "3 different Christian Churches" would throw off the
>Gallup Poll results?
I dunno. I never asked Gallup. Did you? I thought not.
>Had a moron like you been one of the respondents, you could have provided
>only one answer, and if you'd provided the additional information about
>other church memberships, your response would have been invalidated [read:
>thrown out (fortunately)].
And you know this because you asked them? I thought not.
>For every moron like you who still can't figure out what Christianity is,
>even after going through three different churches,
Oh I didn't say I went through 3 churches. I am still considered a
member of all three. If the three churches are asked how many members
they have, each will report one extra person because of me, and thus I
would be counted 3 times in a total of all reported church
memberships, such as that in the World Almanac.
>there are ten men like
>Thomas Jefferson who aren't members of any churches who most likely
>understand more about the Holy Bible than all the members of all three of
>your churches put together.
I am sure that many of the unchurched know a lot about the Bible. I
am also sure that many of the churched know far more about the Bible
than you do, since you know so little.
>Members of Christian churches are counted in two different ways at
>http://www.geocities.com/fathersfiasco/
Better check that site again!
%^)
>1) Reports from churches themselves--InfoPlease Almanac.
Which are subject to repetitively counting people like me, as well as
artificial inflation by churches wanting to look more important than
they really are.
>2) Random polls of the American public--the now-discredited Gallup Poll.
If they are discredited, then they aren't a suitable source.
Hence you post two sources of wrong data. So your numbers are WRONG.
>There are another 9% on the Gallup Poll whose responses were classified as
>"None" or "undesignated". Men like Thomas Jefferson would have been in that
>classification.
So are many other people.
>If they are half of these responses, then the percentage of
>Americans who are Christians is 90.5%. If they're all of these responses,
>then it's 95%.
They aren't, since I know some.
>What we can say with certainty is that 86-95% of Americans are Christians.
No we can't say it with "certainty". Only GOD can say with certainty
who is a Christian, because only He knows what is in our hearts.
>Informing this forum that you're "a member of 3 different Christian
>Churches" is about as worthless as informing this forum that you had a high
>SAT score: it's irrelevant, it's distracting, and nobody believes it
>anyway.
So? YOU are irrelevant. YOU are distracting, and nobody believes YOU
anyway. Therefore, by your own reasoning, you also are WORTHLESS. Go
subtract yourself from the world, and its GNP will drop by nothing.
>Rather than beating your own drum, why don't you inform this forum which you
>believe to be the correct figure?
I don't "believe" any "figure" to be correct, since I do not believe
it can be "figured".
lojbab
