"Other Christian?"
The Revealer raises a troubling question about Texas exit-poll data.
19% of respondents id'd themselves as "Other Christian" -- neither Catholic nor Protestant. Really? This must reflect the huge Greek Orthodox community in Texas, right? Or is it possible that 19% don't know that their tradition is Protestant?
This is why we need to teach religion in public schools. I'm serious! Religious literacy is important for everyone regardless of their personal affilliation/convictions/lack thereof. And religious institutions clearly can't be trusted to contextualize their teachings. We need comprehensive world religion classes in every high school.
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Who could be other Christian?
Oriental Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy
Mormons
Episcopalians (at least I don't think they consider themselves protestant)
Jehovah's Witnesses
Snake handlers (oh, no wait they're protestant)
People who don't go to church, don't think about religion, but aren't damn liberals so they're Christian
People who don't want to tell a pollster that they're agnostic/nonreligious/atheist
People who haven't learned the history of their church
It might be the Mormons and the Episcopalians, there are a lot of them.....
Bah, no, you're right. It's like this one evangelical girl my brother dated in high school who kept on referring, in front of my Catholic-raised mom, to Catholics and Christians. Two separate groups.
I think it'd be nice to get women's history classes into high schools as well....
yeah, what about all those people checking "other" for "gender?" They can't ALL be trans.
God and stuff
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"And religious institutions clearly can't be trusted to contextualize their teachings"
And government institutions can? LOL