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 Philistine with no understanding or experience of
> religion at all;
Um, George Gallup and his son were/are born-again Christians, and the operation is very sympathetic to religion (and the Republican party).
> and asking people about their reasons for going to
> church, or for anything else that they do, is dumb from the get-go.
Yeah, no point in asking questions when you already know the answers.
Doug