Latest Breaking News: 44% agree "Christians get on my nerves."

TalkingDog

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Wed Jan-09-08 08:34 PM
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Latest Breaking News: 44% agree "Christians get on my nerves."

I wanted to post this in LBN, since technically it is. But I really, really couldn't resist this quote.

It sounds like the survey might have been....ahem...better structured.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-01-09-unchurched-survey_N.htm?!?!

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A new survey of U.S. adults who don't go to church, even on holidays, finds 72% say "God, a higher or supreme being, actually exists." But just as many (72%) also say the church is "full of hypocrites."

LifeWay Research, the research arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, based in Nashville, conducted the survey of 1,402 "unchurched" adults last spring and summer. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

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stray cat

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Wed Jan-09-08 09:07 PM
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1. How high a percent is it for those who say people get on their nerves

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Jan-09-08 09:18 PM
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2. That would be 100% of the techs in my office

They were ticked off because someone told them a job by a subcontractor was done when it wasn't. "But the subcontractor is a MINISTER", they were told. They railed about how ministers are right up there with used car salesmen as a group having a high percentage of con artists. And, frankly, I had to agree that the profession does attract those who are more interested in fleecing their flocks than living lives following the doctrines of Jesus.

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Yael

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:09 PM
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4. The use of Jesus' name for the sake of personal gain

(or liability coverage) is astonishing.

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Yael

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:08 PM
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3. As a Christian, I would like to say that

they are right.

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readmoreoften

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:10 PM
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5. Actually, the 44% of the respondents probably just wanted to piss off the Xian pollster.

:shrug:

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ProdigalJunkMail

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:15 PM
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7. that would NOT piss off the pollster... n/t

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readmoreoften

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Wed Jan-09-08 11:05 PM
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11. point taken. /nt

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ProdigalJunkMail

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:14 PM
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6. Hey, I know the guy that did the study!

cool...thought this looked like something he would be up to!!!

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fascisthunter

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:16 PM
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8. That Number is Higher around Me

Edited on Wed Jan-09-08 10:17 PM by fascisthunter

due to the crap they hear on Fox News and conservo-idiot radio. People are sick of it....

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UTUSN

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:30 PM
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9. They haven't asked ME!1 Does that bring it up to forty-FIVE?!1 n/t

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ProdigalJunkMail

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Wed Jan-09-08 10:34 PM
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10. i think a good question would have been

in polling CHURCHGOING Christians, "How many of you are irritated at least SOME of your fellow parishioners?"

Answer rate would be close to 100%

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