At 09:54 4-12-01 -0800, Jim Sharkey wrote: >Jeroen wrote: > >If you are not Christian, your chances of getting a job in politics > >seem to be considerably smaller; how many members of Congress and > >the Senate do NOT call themselves Christians? And when was the last > >time the US had a non-Christian (FREX, a Muslem) president? > >But isn't that a function of the population in the U.S. being predominantly >Christian? You make it sound like some vast conspiracy to keep the other >religions out of office. I'm curious as to what percentage of people in the >U.S. are at least nominally Christian of their own accord. Assuming that >percentage is sufficiently high, which I believe it most likely is, doesn't >it follow that it's more likely that the people entering politics are going >to be Christian statistically?
True, but it also follows that a certain percentage of people entering politics are not Christians. According to the CIA World Factbook 2001, 84% of the population is Christian, 2% is Jewish, 4% follow an other religion, and 10% are not religious. Is this reflected in Congress en Senate? Following these statistics, 10 members of the Senate and 44 members of Congress should be non-religious; 4 members of the Senate should be Muslem/Hindu/<whatever> and 17 members of Congress should be Muslem/Hindu/<whatever>. Is that the actual situation? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l Tom's Photo Gallery: http://www.tom.vanbaardwijk.com
