Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:03:47 -0700 (MST)
From: mccoyj@U.Arizona.EDU (John McCoy)
Subject: Re: a new list server for libertarian atheists
To: LIBERTARIANS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, LARRY JOHNSON wrote:

> >Larry, these figures are patently ridiculous on their face. America has
> >sizable (i.e. measurable percentages) minorites of Jews, Moslems,
> >Buddhists, Confucionists and agnostics. I can't say as I've run across
> >many of these minorities in libertarian circles (I have come across a
> >Moslem libertarian website--Minaret of Freedom, IIRC--and know at least
> >one converting Jew who is a libertarian), but I'm sure they're there, if
> >not represented in comparable percentages.
>
> what better numbers do you have???
> and what are your sources?

CIA World Fact Book:
Religions for U.S.: Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none 10% (1989) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/us.html#people

So your figures weren't wildly off, but did neglect Jewish people and "other."


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