Good point on Cathy however. If it is on web and even more impressively on wiki it must be true. Well done my urinal boy!

You have a lot of time on your hands there, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Frank

Consider me a Dalit who cleans urinals at an internet bar in Mumbai.

“The verity that one only has a HS education does not inevitably signify they are not well educated.” One’s level of education is something along the lines of a fact; it does not fall into a category of philosophical or transcendent “truth”. (Google Orwell Politics English Language for a great essay on writing most folks here would benefit from. I wish I could live up to those standards too. ) Nevertheless, it is a component of socioeconomic class. That is just the definition sec. Lincoln was indeed largely self-taught, and mightily well educated despite his shortcomings.

I think you are making my point on socioeconomic class at any rate. Lincoln is a perfect example of someone who was from a very low socioeconomic class, and thanks to the liberal and egalitarian United States, was able to achieve greatness. This was one of the things that made the Southerners hate Lincoln, as well as his rather decent notion that slavery was an evil to be eradicated. He was counter to their ridiculous adoration for the half-wits, bastards, and other hard-luck stories comprising their so-called aristocracy who could point to relatives with a title in England, Scotland, or Ireland. The point is that Lincoln’s greatness was not that he made some dough, he did great things.

Selling junk food to the obese hardly constitutes great deeds. Unlike Ray Kroc, Cathy did not invent an industry either good or bad. He evidently makes chicken sandwiches folks like, and has a penchant for misspelling ( see rapper references above ). He has made a ton of dough, and as best I can tell has given away around $23MM to charity. That is considerably less than 2%. That is a pretty damned poor showing.

I also read Focus on the Family has been a recipient of his largess (I wonder if he launders it through some snake-handling Hallelujah Baptist?). If that is true, Cathy is an enemy of basic decency, and is among the lowest filth on the planet.

I do not think I said anything particularly negative about Cathy before, and this time only if he is still tied up with the Focus on the Family garbage.

Fast food is evil? There is another foolhardy statement. You never had a chick-fil-a sandwich have you? What a pity.

Observer doubtless views his status as one of a high socioeconomic class. From his comments on a man he has never met, he is far removed from such stateliness. Cathy is tops in respect, generosity and philanthropy. Education and money indicates little concerning an individual. Class and respect cannot be taught or bought and those who do not possess these qualities, they are the most primitive of human beings.

As with almost all definitions pertaining to groups of people, they tend to cover a distribution, and as such there are usually not strict boundaries.

Truett Cathy is an interesting case. He has a high-school education, and is from a Southern Baptist family. He therefore is not from a high socio-economic class. He is still a Southern Baptist. Those are decidedly low social and intellectual class indicators. He made his considerable fortune selling fast food. Promoting fast food is evil, but as the so-called Southern “aristocrats” were slavers, that makes them evil too, but they were not from a low socio-economic class. So Cathy has a billion plus dollars, is unlettered, and practices primitive literalist Christianity. The only thing that could put him into a high social class is money, but that would still require quite a bit of coaching and polishing on his part. Tough call. A billion dollars has a ton of potential.

Anyway, it still sort of astonishing to me that the statement

“Fundamentalists and evangelicals are disproportionately from lower socio-economic classes”

produced any sort of disagreement. It is essentially a tautology.

What??? Did Observer just pull this, uh, um, fact out of his butt? Got to be right op there with the ignorant statements ever to be posted on a blog.

Observer-stein,

That was the point. The study doesn’t exist. If it does, they forgot to publish it on the DHHS website. If it does exist, I feel certain “Christian” is not a category. (lol)
This thread is just another attempt to skew truth to fit ideology. I understand, ideology is a strong drug and must be promoted with every fiber of the being. I feel the calling to expose ideologues.

How do these racist bigots explain guys like:

Truett Cathy
Kurt Warner
George foreman
Gary Busey
Tim Tebow
Roger Staubach
Tony Dungy

and the list just goes on and on! Well, you can’t expect honest assessments from guys with such a bigoted racist view of other people.

Since blacks make up a proportionally large number of the lower socio-economic class, he must be claiming blacks beat their kids. Further more, since they are by a large proportion supporters of the DNC, we can further assume those in the DNC beat their kids more than the rest of the population.