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Thread #62451   Message #1009550
Posted By: GUEST,Deacon Blues
28-Aug-03 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Christian' Loonies Lose It in Montgomery
Subject: RE: BS: Christian Loonies Lose It in Montgomery
The subject of the thread is Christian loonies, not anonymous guests. How about we all stay on topic?

The biggest problem I have with many Christians, loonies or not, is their misperception that the US is a Christian state, when it is in fact a secular state, and the fact that so many of them lie about going to church and being good Christians.

The media routinely banters about figures like the ones I saw on CNN I think it was, last night. "77% of Americans think the monument should not have been moved!" they declared. The media also routinely uses bad statistics (polling which uses self-reporting, and it is well known that people will self-report in ways to make them look good on questions like "do you regularly attend church". They lie, in another words. Gallup and other polls routinely report that about 40% of the US population are regular church goers. However, when surveys are taken of actual church attendance by counting the numbers of people with their asses in a pew, that figure falls to about 20%.

So what is the morality of a) believing the lies the right wing Christians tell; b) telling lies to make it appear as if one is religious when one is not?

My answer: most US Christians are a bunch of phonies, and like the rest of the Republican right, use their religion to club others into submitting to their repressive, regressive agenda that favors the wealthy.