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Anonymous wrote:OP, you were throwing around the "disingenuous" accusation pretty freely a few pages ago.

You know what I think is disingenuous? Your knowingly starting a thread that would stir up passions about Muslims in MoCo, insisting over and over again that this is "a Christian nation" (even after claiming you only mean population, you won't just say that--you keep mouthing the "Christian nation" mantra), keeping the pot stoked and the flame stirred over 9 pages of posts, and then blushing, "Oh, me? No, I'm just being practical. No snark or smugness here."

I rather doubt you care that passionately about whether our schools do or don't add another holiday. You're stirring up anti-Muslim feeling here (or anti-anyone-not-Christian) and you know it.

I brought up the Christian nation thing, and I'm not the OP. And I maintain: [b]This is a Christian nation. All of our culture and conventions reflect that.[/b] I'm sorry that bothers you, but it doesn't change the reality.

I'm not stirring up anything. I certaintly didn't "knowingly start a thread that would sir up passions about Muslims in MoCo." I was reacting to something someone else posted.

To further bore down on this, there are 8 congregations of Muslims in MoCo., with 18,426 adherents. That's about 1.5% of MoCo's population.

By comparsion, there are 185,000 Catholics, 150,000 Christians (split between mainline and evangelical), 84,000 Jews. Since someone brought up Hindus, there are 17 Hindu congregations -- twice as many as Muslims.

So, yeah, this request is just dumb.

http://www.city-data.com/county/religion/Montgomery-County-MD.html [/quote]

There you go again.  Pretty much putting the lie to your "I was only talking about majority population" contention.

Great that you're not the OP.  Everything else I said seems pretty much accurate.  Especially the disingenuous part.  (That was you slinging that term, wasn't it?  Next time you pass one, look in the mirror.)  
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