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Originally posted by gigi@Jan 29 2003, 01:13 PM
I know MANY people who were born and raised in a particular religion, and who would say 'I'm Catholic', or 'I'm Jewish', but they do not practice their religion, nor believe in what it teaches.
Their only connection is the fact that they were raised that way....
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GiGi, I think you are correct on this... I refrained from point out that, as an example, I am technically "protestant", but I sure wouldn't be able to pickout a protestant church on a map of my neighborhood.
I went to Catholic private school, and their only choices for religeon was "Catholic" or "none"... very inclusionarty!
Seriously, I think you could take a big percentage of protestants, plus a fair bit of each of the other groups, and quickly find 60-70% that are reasonably non-religeous... labeled, perhaps, but not part of the organized church.
I suspect that Bush will suffer in the long run from his inability to seperate church and state properly in his own mind. It could go nuke-a-lur...
Alex