Not long after, I switched to assuming (based on an early form of racial profiling) that he was a Muslim, or Moslem as we said back then in pre-Mohammed Ali days. It was only some time in the last decade, I think, that I learned he was a Christian (though if I'd thought about it I might have guessed as much as far as his family's heritage anyway) and not just a run-of-the-mill Born-In-Bethlehem Eastern-Orthodox type, but a guy whose ties were more to us Baptists (and the Adventists).
