Reply #40: Then I'd suggest he's a troll lol

[melody]

A lot of the putative "Americans" on message boards are not Americans, though they claim to be. They are former participants of the old alt.nuke Usenet newsgroups. They've taken their weird, geeky battle to promote conflict everywhere now.

Regarding church attendance, I know our local churches have to go out and pound the pavement for parishioners. We have a "neighborhood watch" program to warn our neighbors when the Jesus Knockers are coming around (and yeah, we call them that). Churches close here from lack of participation and my town is the home of the infamous Bakker smurfs of gay boy pickups and troweled mascara fame. lol

I should also point out that one of the biggest Protestant-type churches is Unitarian-Universalist, which accepts all belief systems. Someone going to that church every week is going to be a very different person from the one attending Jesus Christ Ascension with Signs Following Snake Handlers of Loggy Bottom Hollow, West Virginia. We also have a lot of Buddhists, Taoists, and various other sorts of people. They need to be factored in.

Given all that, I still think somebody is tainting the data. When *my* experiences depart so dramatically from supposed orthodoxy, there has to be more to "it" than meets the eye to my thinking. I could be wrong...its happened before. :)

Now, you can take my input for whatever it's worth...believe what you'd like to believe... but that's my .02.