Non-Believers On the Rise in Congress

[eridani]

Waiting for someone to say s/he's spiritual but not religious.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/15410-non-believers-on-the-rise-in-congress

In the 96th Congress (1979-80), not a single member of the House or Senate said they didn't belong to any particular faith, didn't know or refused to disclose their religion. But in the new 113th Congress, 10 members fall under that category.

That's twice as many as in the 111th Congress (2009-10).

Pew notes there's still a great disparity between the percentage of U.S. adults and the percentage of members of Congress who don't identify with any particular religion.

From Pew's fascinating report on the religious composition of the 113th Congress:

About one-in-five U.S. adults describe themselves as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" -- a group sometimes collectively called the "nones." But only one member of the new Congress, Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), is religiously unaffiliated, according to information gathered by CQ Roll Call. Sinema is the first member of Congress to publicly describe her religion as "none," though 10 other members of the 113th Congress (about 2%) do not specify a religious affiliation, up from six members (about 1%) of the previous Congress. This is about the same as the percentage of U.S. adults in Pew Research Center surveys who say that they don't know, or refuse to specify, their faith (about 2%).

The numbers here caught my eye, not because of the disparity between non-believers in the general population and in Congress, but because I was surprised so many members actually admitted to it.

[Populist_Prole]

1. Good.

I really don't know what I am, but I'm sick of these "This is a christian nation" assholes.