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12766 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 7, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Michael Smith wrote: >> Um, George Gallup and his son were/are born-again Christians, and the >> operation is very sympathetic to religion (and the Republican party). > > Do you suppose that Gallup himself compiled that list? The place > hardly seems > to be a one-man shop any more. "...and the operation is very sympathetic to religion." They're noted for their studies of and sympathy for religion. Google "george gallup christ ...
Document Size: 6129
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 7 07:09:12 PDT 2007
12767 [lbo-talk] Alan Dershowitz is so persecuted -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - April 5, 2007 http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/04/2007040504n.htm Harvard Law Professor Works to Disrupt Tenure Bid of Longtime Nemesis at DePaul U. By JENNIFER HOWARD The highly public feud between Norman G. Finkelstein of DePaul University and Harvard Law School's Alan M. Dershowitz has taken an unusual procedural twist, with Mr. Dershowitz attempting to weigh in on Mr. Finkelstein's bid for tenure at DePaul. How Mr. Dershowitz's move will play out remains to ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 7 07:01:14 PDT 2007
12768 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 7, 2007, at 9:07 AM, jrdavis wrote: > Americans really don't attend church as much as they claim to. Here > is a link to an article which summarizes a study done in the late > 90's which compared actual church attendence in one county in Ohio > with a poll done in that county. > > > http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=237 > Thank you! I read about that study years ago and always wanted to track it down. I said earlier the small town/rural South is ...
Document Size: 5592
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 7 06:55:31 PDT 2007
12769 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 7, 2007, at 10:08 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > really? i didn't know they were repug-symps. i don't recall that > coming up > in the nearly 10 yrs this list has been around. It came up during the 2004 election. Gallup polls regularly showed Bush a few points higher than other houses did, and their approval rating for Bush has run a little higher too. I don't think they cook the data, but sometimes your political unconscious dictates your methodological choices. I'd p ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 7 06:24:28 PDT 2007
12770 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 7, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > I grew up in a small town in the South That was several decades ago, when the South was less industrialized and the population less mobile, and the small-town South is a small part of the U.S. population. > Admittedly, the Gallup poll was silly, as they usually are. Yeah, social scientists are a bunch of idiots. > The list of > "reasons" for going to church was clearly compiled by some smug > secular-bourgeois Philisti ...
Document Size: 5717
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 7 05:44:08 PDT 2007
12771 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Thhis is not the first > time that a BLS survey debunks gallup results. Don't forget that the Gallups are born-agin'ers. Doug
Document Size: 4890
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 21:43:34 PDT 2007
12772 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000
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Document Size: 10899
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 14:35:56 PDT 2007
12773 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000
May I remind people that the daily posting limit is three; I can count at least three people who've doubled that. Doug
Document Size: 4537
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 13:52:48 PDT 2007
12774 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > As Dwayne points out, nothing we do now will prevent a huge climactic > change. If you are interested in the next generation you damn well > better give primary attention to building social relations that can > survive with some decency in that world. This is not fatalism. Your > position amounts to trying to solve Katrina by dipping out the water > with a thimble. My position is that we've got to do something to mitigate what's ...
Document Size: 5475
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 13:47:21 PDT 2007
12775 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Chuck wrote: > I don't even have children and the fate of future generations is > constantly on my mind. > > Perhaps I'm a stupid, incurable optimist, so I don't fit well with the > doomsayer collapsism of the American Left. I think that we can make a > difference, but we have to ACT now. Once again, I'm 100% with Chuck. Having a kid made me take global warming more personally, but even before that it scared me. But not to paralysis or fatalism or ...
Document Size: 5167
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 12:42:19 PDT 2007
12776 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Social and religious reasons, to most religious people of the sort in > whom leftists ought to take interest, are one and the same. Here's the way the survey was reported. People were free to give multiple answers. So if you have some insight here that passed Gallup by, you might want to contact Frank Newport. I've got his email address. For spiritual growth and guidance 23% Keeps me grounded/inspired ...
Document Size: 5589
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 12:06:39 PDT 2007
12777 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > What's wrong with an inefficient allocation? Depends on what you're talking about. That pic that Andy F, I think, pointed to - of a guy driving his SUV to the gym while his dog ran alongside on a leash - is a bad kind of inefficiency. The practice of my landlord, The New Press, of running the a/c all winter because parts of the office are poorly ventilated, is a bad kind of inefficiency. (Ceiling fans? How boring!) The practice of rich peop ...
Document Size: 5333
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 12:01:47 PDT 2007
12778 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Chuck wrote: > It looks like those of us who are anti-religion activists have our > work > cut out for us. I'm just happy to see the appearance of the "New > Atheism" movement. I'd really like to see more people agitating for a > more non-religious American society. Me too, but it looks like we're in a minority, even on this list. > That being said, I think this survey is allowing too many people to > lie > about their church attendan ...
Document Size: 6818
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 11:16:36 PDT 2007
12779 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Chuck wrote: > It looks like those of us who are anti-religion activists have our > work > cut out for us. I'm just happy to see the appearance of the "New > Atheism" movement. I'd really like to see more people agitating for a > more non-religious American society. Me too, but it looks like we're in a minority, even on this list. > That being said, I think this survey is allowing too many people to > lie > about their church attendan ...
Document Size: 6323
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 11:16:36 PDT 2007
12780 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000
On Apr 6, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The discussion we need, perhaps, is not how to prevent global warming, > but how to prepare to survive under the conditions created by it -- > i.e., to regard global warming the way we regard an approching rain > squall: we don't wonder how to stop it but take our umbrella with us. > Global warming is coming, and debate about how to stop it has become > pointless. How do we prepare for it. What is it with this outbreak of either/o ...
Document Size: 5550
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 6 11:01:38 PDT 2007
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