Religion
Related: About this forumTrump won all 10 of the most religious states
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article131541794.htmlAccording to a poll released Wednesday, Mississippi was the most religious state in 2016, followed by nine others located almost exclusively in the South: Alabama, Utah, South Dakota, South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky.
Only in North Carolina was the race even remotely close, with Trump winning 49.8 percent of the vote to Clintons 46.2 percent. The president beat his Democratic challenger by more than 10 percentage points in all of the other most religious states.
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Clinton won all of the 10 least religious states, with the exception of Alaska. Those states are Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Nevada, Alaska, Oregon, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire and Washington.
atreides1
(16,064 posts)10 of the most religious states voted for an adulterer, a thief, a liar, and very likely a child molester and a rapist!!!
What does that say about modern conservative "Christians"???
Conservative "Christians", promise them the right to hate people, and they would vote for Satan!!!
rickford66
(5,521 posts)Church attendance or actual religious or moral conduct?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Self-identification and attendance. It's in the story the OP linked to.
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)of their Christian principles. I haven't asked any of them yet what they think of the Christian principles of old "pussy grabber", but I'm sure they would find some way to excuse his behavior, his 3 marriages and his admitted adultery.
SMH
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)Church has changed in recent years?
MFM008
(19,803 posts)and believing they are morally superior states.
Real Christianity involves compassion, none of which you have
if you voted for the maggot.
Nay
(12,051 posts)a political arm of the Republican Party.
3catwoman3
(23,943 posts)...(pardon me) godammned sense whatsoever.
SCROTUS is no more religious than the bowl of soup I'm eating, yet he was able to con people that he is.
I am completely unable to suspend my intellect enough to fall for bullshit, so it is hard for me to understand how easily so many others do.
Willing suspension of disbelief is fine at the movies. Not a good way to deal with the real world.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Is it because he's a terrible, heartless person? Can terrible, heartless people only be atheists?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)This is the church he claims he attended.
Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)Which means nothing, other than I got to see Liza Minellis' wedding back years and years ago.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Jesus answered, I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.[
77 times being an idiom for without end.
Mathew 18:21-22
trotsky
(49,533 posts)The explanation is that faith is belief without proof. You yourself push that meme relentlessly to make sure your faith can't be questioned.
But the thing is, that is also the Trump phenomenon in a nutshell. His fans believe he's a successful businessman, but have no proof. They believe he's going to "drain the swamp," but there is no proof. They believe he's going to be a champion for the little guy, but again there's no proof. They don't need there to be - because it's a belief. Which is fine to hold without proof, because religion.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)As to what Trump supporters believe about Trump, numerous articles suggest that Trump's believers responded more to his image as the supposed outsider rather than any specific components of his message.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Good example. Thanks.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Thank you Donald Trump for bringing us into agreement.
Fix The Stupid
(947 posts)And how do you tell?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)other than the idiom included in the phrasing, it seems to be a direct admonition that forgiveness is essential.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)See? Easy.