From: rcampb@milton.u.washington.edu (Russell Campbell)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Snide comments (was Re: Perfectionism)
Message-ID: <1991Sep4.144715.4076@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 91 14:47:15 GMT
References: <GOEHRING.91Aug27090757@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Sep4.025930.28220@acsu.buffalo.edu> <GOEHRING.91Sep4090612@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <GOEHRING.91Sep4090612@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu writes:
>In article <1991Sep4.025930.28220@acsu.buffalo.edu>, fleming@acsu.buffalo.edu (christine m fleming) writes:
>>The same could be said for just about every religion.
>
>Really?  The general public impression of the Christian Church is that
>it's a bunch of crackpots?  I doubt that; at least in the United
>States.  Granted, there are a lot of people who disagree with the
>various aspects of Christianity, but I doubt that any large segment of
>the population feels that the Church is full of crackpots.
>
I suspect you'd find disagreement with this doubt amongst the roughly two
thirds of the world's population that are not "christian".  Don't take the
ethnocentric view that the population of the United States is representative
of the rest of the world.

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