Southern Baptists recently counted the number of people expected to go to hell from Alabama-a whopping 46.1%, or 1.86 million souls. The New York Times (1993) explained how: "The study took each county's population and subtracted from it the membership of all churches. After that, Baptist researchers used a secret formula to estimate how many people from different denominations and faiths were probably going to heaven." Newsday (1993) reported that based on this calculation "a higher percentage of Methodists are saved than are Roman Catholics" and that "virtually everyone not belonging to a church congregation was counted among the lost."
Source: Love Thy Neighbor - The Evolution of In-Group Morality
By John Hartung, Skeptic, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1995
(http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/ltn01.html)
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