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From: rjd4507@venus.tamu.edu (DEFRESE, RAYMOND JACK)
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Subject: Re: Genesis 3:14,15
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In article <Aug.19.22.52.27.1990.16484@athos.rutgers.edu>, rodvan@microsoft.UUCP (Rod VAN MECHELEN) writes...
>Here is a thing I reckon ought to be of encouragement.
> 
>According to the STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE US, 1989 edition of the
>National Data Book, in 1987 (more recent stats are not available)
>56 percent of Americans believe themselves to be Christians.

	I seem to remember seeing the results of a Gallup poll that
	said 95% of Americans believe in God (not necessarily the 
	Judeo-Christian God), 84% believed Jesus to be the Son of
	God and 25% considered themselves "evangelical" (of which
	I am one).  

>Setting aside debates over "professors" vs. "possessors," that means 
>the majority of Americans have a predisposition to serve a Christian
>agenda.

	Judging from the Gallup results, I'd say you're right.

> 
>Food for thinking!
>Rod

	Thanks for sharing, Rod!

Ray De Frese
Texas A&M University
E-MAIL: RJD4507@TAMVENUS