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To: Natural Law
You continue to cite your own preferences over facts.

PROTESTANTISM IN SWITZERLAND

A longtime majority (nearly 60%), the Protestant churches and communities did not benefit from the predominantly Catholic immigration in 1960-1970. The proportion of Protestants thus experienced a strong depreciation, comprising only 40% of the population in 1990...

8,017 posted on 09/30/2010 11:37:40 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"You continue to cite your own preferences over facts."

Isn't it about time you cared more about what is right instead of who is right? You can believe anything you want and for whatever reason you want, you just cannot simply impose that belief on an educated public in contradiction to published historical fact. You may be successful with you close circle through the strength of your personality or the shrillness of your argument, but I am neither intimidated nor impressed by you and your rhetoric or methods. Further, you posting history seriously undermines any confidence in the truthfulness of your posts so you start out with a serious credibility.

I have presented information from numerous sites including the wikipedia, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, and the CIA World Fact Book. I have drawn on a book I own;"A Contested Nation. History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891" by Oxford professor, Dr Oliver Zimmer (Cambridge, 2003). You have countered with a link to a travel blog run by a Protestant couple that, not surprisingly, also includes links to Protestant and Evangelical sites. By any objective standard or independent research anyone on these sites can clearly and easily determine what is right and who is lying.

I invite everyone interested to simply spend ten minutes researching the subject. They will conclude, like I have, that although there have been pockets of Protestant majority since the Reformation, the whole of Switzerland has been predominantly Catholic for the last 1200 years.

8,040 posted on 10/01/2010 8:34:00 AM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
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