From: fjc@thingy.apana.org.au (Frank Copeland) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: 8 Million Members? Bah! Date: 24 Apr 1998 09:43:59 +1000 Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <353f5717.6768078@troll.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: thingy.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.6 UNIX) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Neil Muspratt wrote: >Find a recent edition of your city's White Pages telephone directory. >Look under "C" for "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints". Yup, >you read correctly. Look up all the listings for your local Mormons >(they actually *do* number over 8 million worldwide). Now, count how >many listings they have. Got a number? Good. Melbourne, Australia: 36 listings, in 21 different suburbs. >Now look up "Church of Scientology" and count how many listings appear >there. Conveniently, this comes right after the LDS listings for easy comparison: One. There used to be two. $cientology just keeps on expanding. - -- Home Page: Not the Scientology Home Page: Keep it in Usenet. E-mail replies and 'courtesy' copies are not welcome. If you're selling, I ain't buying. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNT/SOoBOXdsElwbdAQGQjgP/dVa+rlGIlga7dcAMrU1yjKeWoOz7qeHU 1DwINkUtBlxNojqxDANXxMsK07PVlDIaBTZsUyiU6IBOTgjzC/4OdgfKaZF0xP2B KGz7fbxL0vXZoTMpaeFs8KjSPVqgF6eQkJz/Kq4hwYlFfViMoqp68t2OGE7Er7kI KFiQ0rZasDU= =hJdU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----