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[Sarah Ovenall <sovenall AT nc.rr.com>]

Spurlock showed the children several portraits. Not just Jesus and 
Ronald McDonald but also Georg Washington and I think some others. I 
don't recall any of the kids knowing who Washington was, although of 
course we don't know how many kids were actually shown the photos, & 
whether any of the ones who didn't end up in the film did recognize the 
first president.

I also have to add that I was raised in an atheist family and at the 
age of those kids, I wouldn't have been able to identify a portrait of 
Jesus either. But I think that's fairly uncommon, the majority (if not 
the vast majority) of Americans self-identify as Christian.

Sarah

On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 04:57 PM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Was the percentage that could identify Jesus correlated with the
> percentage that are Christians?  This is a silly comparison.  There's 
> no
> reason the Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, etc, in the room would
> have any idea how to recognize the traditional portrayal of Jesus.
>
> Yet Ronald McDonald is an American figure that most Americans are
> exposed to (unlike artistic portrayals of a specific religious figure).
> What would have been more telling would be to compare it to a picture 
> of
> George Washington, or perhaps the current President of the US.