The God Gap? The Faith of Republicans and Democrats

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The study confirmed one spiritual distinctive of Democrats: they are much more likely to attract a wide spectrum of religious perspectives. While one out of 14 Republicans is aligned with a religious belief system other than Christianity, the same is true for one out of every five Democrats. Among the non-Christians within the Democratic Party, two-thirds are atheists and agnostics.

Church attendance was the only area of religious behavior generating a difference between the parties of more than 10 percentage points: 53% of Republicans say they attended church in the last seven days (compared with 41% of Democrats) and only 22% of Republicans qualified as unchurched (as opposed to 34% among Democrats).

The survey also explored denominational loyalties. One-quarter of the adults associated with each of the parties is Catholic (23% of Republican voters, 27% of Democrats). Non-mainline Protestants make up roughly one-third of both groups (36% and 31%, respectively), while mainline Protestants, surprisingly, are more common among the GOP (21% versus 13%).



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[CoreIssue]

The gap on atheists and such is expected.

But I find nothing encouraging in being mainline Protestant, when so many of those churches are pretty spiritual empty now.

[CTZonEdit]

Which makes the case for the church being removed. There are so few real believers today that the whole of the church is completely and utterly ineffective. It has become the part and parcel of the world.

In all reality this is the ONLY hope that true believers have. That we will escape this dire apostacy and the wrath to come for those that believe otherwise. We are increasingly shouted down in our efforts to restore any biblical truths.

We have to go and let them deal with God. They dont listen to the church or its mission any longer. Repenting from sin or admitting you are a sinner are lost causes. Everyone wants to 'feel' good about Jesus.

Dont judge me! Dont make people feel guilty! God doesnt send people to Hell because they are bad! These are the overwhelming majority of voices and the only one that can silence them and change hearts is God himself at this point.

The world of the 'Church' has completely destroyed the true church at this point. Now we are just 'extreme fundamentalists' left on the fringe the worlds' belief systems.

Sigh.

[Jessie]

profound thoughts CTZ.

very true.