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Christianity Today: Atheism is the only rational outlook.

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ohnhai
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05-19-2007 11:40 PM

Error | ChristianityToday.com
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Christianity Today's latest poll asks 'Atheism is...'
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You will be surprised
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05-20-2007 12:16 AM 		Reply to: Message 2 by subbie
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and in the short time since subbie posted it's risen to 8725 votes.
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wow. the votes are rolling in.
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05-20-2007 11:21 PM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Hyroglyphx
05-20-2007 1:21 PM

Re: Uncovering the psychology of the post-modernist
What difference does it make either way if anyone votes? These polls are just for shits and giggles.
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Intresting that you dismiss these polls as for 'Shits and giggles'when on overwhelming numbers the chrisitan POV is not up held. I wonder if your song would have been different has #1 or #3 been at 97% with 83k votes cast?
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The poll caster's mistake in this case was putting the 'correct' option in the poll. (a rarity for a Christian Site) as the news spread and the un-faithfull rocked up for a look-see, they felt compelled to vote.
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While there are those who,not without reason, suspect a modicum of 'multiple postings', given the way the large numbers are comming in fit's and starts (as diferent websites and time zones discover this poll) I would not be surprised if the majority of these numbers were genuine.
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After all are we not saying 'there are far more atheists out there tha n any of us susspect!'? Well here you go. A nother pebble for the hill of evidence.
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05-21-2007 6:58 PM

ooops. Silly people looks like they have removed the poll at 97% and 83431 votes .
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But worry not. We have WELL documented. tis probably turn out embarrassing for them....
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05-21-2007 10:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 31 by dwise1
05-21-2007 9:51 PM

Re: Once again it shows that Biblical Christian Evangelicals are simply LIARS.
There is no guarantee that it was compromised (I do realise you said 'apparently)
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sure the numbers are huge but the news of the poll went far and wide. It is not even remotely out of the question that 80k-ish people of an atheistic tenancy could have turned up to see how a Christian rag was mis-representing atheism today, and were surprised to find the 'correct' answer amongst the option. In this light they could not help but voting.
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I was watching the numbers and they came in fits and starts (as the various web-sites and time zones discovered it). I would not be surprised if a few people figured out how to vote more then once but I would not be surprised if the VAST number of those votes were actually genuine
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05-21-2007 10:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 32 by jar
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Re: Once again it shows that Biblical Christian Evangelicals are simply LIARS.
To simply "disappear" the recent poll they are willfully ignoring truth and facts.
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to simply 'disappear' the poll without comment is extremely bad form. And in the light of the fact I KNOW it has been recorded and screen grabbed through out its short but interesting life, probably quite a foolish move too.
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