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Words Mean Things — Including the Word 'Christian'

Jim Wed, 04/12/17 8:30 pm
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Dan Phillips
American Christianity

“We are seldom given any data that would help us weigh polls. For all we know, if someone told the BBC pollster he was a Christian (“describe themselves as Christian”), he was simply taken at his word. But suppose a survey reported, ‘Of the scientists polled, 83% believe the moon is made of green cheese’… Wouldn’t everyone immediately challenge the survey’s definition of ‘scientists’”?

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