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To: Mulder
From the CIA fact book:

Ethnic groups: Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian Religions: Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%, Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%, Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Protestant 10%, indigenous beliefs (WTF?) 34%

Wonder who the bandits are?

23 posted on 02/23/2004 8:24:54 PM PST by gdc314
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To: gdc314
indigenous beliefs (WTF?) 34%

What's the WTF for? Indigenous beliefs are whatever the natives believed for thousands of years before Europeans showed up.

36 posted on 02/23/2004 9:09:51 PM PST by John H K
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To: gdc314
indigenous beliefs (WTF?) 34%

Headhunters and animal worshippers, but some more sophisticated local religions as well. What is really meant by the term is whatever religion the people had before the Europeans (or Arabs in the case of Islam) came.

47 posted on 02/23/2004 10:02:43 PM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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