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curious2
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2012 Nov 7, 3:48am
Maybe the evangelical side of the Republican Party is a turn off to both the Asian Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, and moderate Christians?
I certainly hope so. And it isn't just the "evangelical side," even "mainstream" Republicans declare America a "Christian country" and try to impose Pat Robertson's definition of that upon us all.
David Brooks tried on PBS last night. Maybe the evangelical side of the Republican Party is a turn off to both the Asian Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, and moderate Christians?
Do you see Christians killing ourself like the Muslim sects are doing today, do you ?
Kind of a turn off.. dont you think
No wonder Christianity +2 BIllion and still growing...
The World Evangelical Alliance is "a network of churches in 128 nations that have each formed an evangelical alliance and over 100 international organizations joining together to give a worldwide identity, voice and platform" to an estimated more than 600 million evangelical Christians.
Catholic Church membership (both lay and clerical) in 2007 was 1.147 billion people, having increased from 437 million in 1950 and 654 million in 1970
On 31 December 2011, membership was 1.196 billion, an increase of 11.54% over the same date in 2000, which was only slightly greater than the rate of increase of the world population (10.77%). The increase was 33.02% in Africa, but only 1.17% in Europe. It was 15.91% in Asia, 11.39% in Oceania and 10.93% in the Americas. As a result, Catholics were 17.77% of the total population in Africa, 63.10% in the Americas, 3.05% in Asia, 39.97% in Europe, 26.21% in Oceania and 17.09% of the world population.
Tenpoundbass
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2012 Nov 7, 4:30am
all those people voting for Obama are "shiftless loafers"
...and a slovenly house keeper too!
I am Asian but I did not vote for Obama, the liar in chief! I will never vote democrat.
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According to some readers on Patrick, all those people voting for Obama are "shiftless loafers" which I guess encompasses the best educated (and supposedly the hardest working) minority population in the US.
The Republicans have "easy" stories on how African Americans vote, on how Latinos vote but what's the meme on the Asian vote? How do you frame that story?
David Brooks tried on PBS last night. Maybe the evangelical side of the Republican Party is a turn off to both the Asian Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, and moderate Christians? Perhaps that notion of individual self-sufficiency is a turn-off to populations raised on communal family values which espouses taking care of your extended family and friends.
I don't know, but Republican strategists should start dissecting why their message didn't resonate at all with nearly all of the well-educated Asians I know.
Just sayin'.....
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