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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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To: Natural Law; OLD REGGIE; 1000 silverlings; RnMomof7
You have countered with a link to a travel blog run by a Protestant couple

Where did you come up with that fact? From the website...

All about Micheloud & Co. Home > About us

For over 35 years, the Micheloud family has been helping its foreign clients to move to Switzerland, personally or financially. Micheloud & Co was incorporated in 1999 to offer financial and immigration services pursuing to this family tradition. With offices in Geneva, Sion and Lausanne, where we have our head office, we receive clients from all over the world in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian. Here are a few resources to help you discover Micheloud & Cie:

Nothing about their religion.

8,388 posted on 10/03/2010 2:50:49 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: Natural Law; OLD REGGIE; RnMomof7; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy
I have presented information from numerous sites including the wikipedia...

You mean THIS WIKIPEDIA...?

The country is historically about evenly balanced between Catholic and Protestant, with a complex patchwork of majorities over most of the country. One canton, Appenzell, was officially divided into Catholic and Protestant sections in 1597.[132] The larger cities (Bern, Geneva, Zürich and Basel) are predominantly Protestant

So your evidence does not say Catholicism was historically the predominant faith of Switzerland, and it does say Geneva is "predominantly Protestant."

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.

Not according to your own reference.

By any objective standard or independent research anyone on these sites can clearly and easily determine what is right and who is lying.

You got that right.

8,433 posted on 10/03/2010 5:25:26 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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