In a message dated 12/3/01 5:30:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > Minor quibble - despite the best efforts of the current US President, > the United States is not a Christian country.
What is currently the largest religious group in the US? >> According to CIA Factbook, (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/) as of 1989: Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none 10% As you know, the US neither endorses nor opposes any religious belief. That's a part of our Constitution (and is mentioned on the list every few months). The US has been defined as having Judeo-Christian values, since a large majority of our population is either Jewish or Christian, but IMHO, we don't really think of ourselves as a Christian or Jewish country. I think this is an important distinction and one that may be difficult to comprehend if you don't live here. We don't think of ourselves as a Christian country despite the fact that Christians are in the majority. To Americans, a "Christian" country would be a theocracy, or one in which churches have a lot of political influence and other religions have little or no influence on gov't laws and policy. Ireland would be a good example of a country an American would think of as "Christian" or "Catholic" for this reason. Jon
