Thursday, August 11, 2005

Food for Thought

From the Harper's Index for July, 2005:

Number of U.S. public-school districts that have adopted a class in which the Bible is the primary textbook: 301
[National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (Greensboro, N.C.)]

Rank, in the current line of succession to the U.S. Presidency, of the first non-Christian: 16
[Harper's research]

Number of America's nine "Founding Fathers" who denied the divinity of Jesus: 7
[Frank Lambert, Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.)]

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