Re: New Religion Survey stats

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the results are out on the survey commissioned by the Graduate School and
University Center of the City University of New York and conducted by the ICR
Survey Research Group of Media, PA. this is the first major secular survey of
religion in 55 years; religiously driven Gallup polls disregarded.

here's the breakdown:

Categorized by respondent     Percentage of Total

Non-specific

Refused to answer                     2.2 [could be closet atheists?]
Christian                             4.7
None or no religion                   7.7
Protestant                           10.3

Specific

Mormons                               1.4
Jews                                  1.8
Presbyterians                         2.8
Lutherans                             5.2
Methodists                            8.0
Baptists                             19.4
Roman Catholics                      26.2

Lumped together

Episcopalians [George Bush, et al],
Eastern Religions, 7th Day, Assembly
of God [Swaggart, Bakker, et al],
Evangelical/born agains, Christian
Scientists, Fundamentalists, New Age,
Unitarians, Scientologists, Wicca,
humanists, agnostics                 10.3
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												100.0  Total

hmmmm. 13+ million atheists should be enough to wield some political clout even
against 46+ million Catholics and nearly 34 million Baptists especially
considering the infighting going on in the Baptist camp where their 34 million
are being wagged by the paltry 660,000 AoG types and 446,000 evangelicals
fighting for control?

and if the fence sitting agnostics [1+ million], Unitarians [463,000], and
humanists [29,000] were to admit what they've been hedging on for years, we'd
have another percentage point to take to Washington. [grin] look how much
influence the Jews and Mormons exert with their tiny numbers. what are we
waiting for?

to quote that famous Colorado philopsopher Jeff Schlectner [rhymes with
Lecter?] nee Steck, "Silence is acquiescence!" [snicker]

fling open your closet door and write a letter to somebody [George Bush or
Jesse Helms?] and tell them to get their religions out of YOUR government! tell
them to read the Constitution again and to get a tutor if necessary. write a
letter to the Pope and ask him to mind his OWN business and keep his religious
lobbiests out of Washington. he must have starving people in Italy to take care
of with all that money?