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To: epicure who wrote (83605)	9/11/2008 11:08:18 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541927

For the record, I think Lane was hung up on the no evidence thing too. Indeed, there is no evidence. And neither is there logic. Among the church-going are some sub-sets. You have those who, as BP said, are serious and those, not so much. You also have two subsets with regard to salvation, those for whom salvation is a function of good behavior and those for whom it's a function of loving Jesus. If the church-goer demographic consisted solely of those both serious in their faith and seeing salvation as a function of good behavior, then I think it might be reasonable to make the argument on logic rather than evidence that the church-going are probably generally better behaved than at least the non-church-going Christian demographic if not the seculars and other religionists. But that's not the case. There are two other demographics with unknown behavior variables included in the church-goers. Undercuts the logic approach. As for evidence, there is none. The "observation" approach, in lieu of actual evidence, merely puts lipstick on a stereotype.