Trump won all 10 of the most religious states

[trotsky]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article131541794.html

President Donald Trump won all 10 of the most religious states while Hillary Clinton won nearly all of the 10 least religious, as ranked by Gallup.

According 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 Clinton’s 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]

1. It's hilarious

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]

2. Religious in what way?

Church attendance or actual religious or moral conduct?

[LanternWaste]

6. Self-identification and attendance. It's in the story the OP linked to.

Self-identification and attendance. It's in the story the OP linked to.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Yep. Here is Arkansas I actually heard people say that they had to vote Republican because

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]

8. ...and they wonder why the young don't go to church anymore.

[Bretton Garcia]

21. I get invited to church by girls trying to pick me up

Church has changed in recent years?

[MFM008]

4. sitting in a building every sunday

and believing they are morally superior states.
Real Christianity involves compassion, none of which you have
if you voted for the maggot.

[Nay]

5. That just goes to show you exactly how much religion has corrupted the public since it became

a political arm of the Republican Party.

[3catwoman3]

7. Which makes no...

...(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]

10. What makes you think Trump isn't religious?

Is it because he's a terrible, heartless person? Can terrible, heartless people only be atheists?

[hrmjustin]

12. I know people who work at Marble Collegiate and they said he has not been there in decades.

This is the church he claims he attended.

[Dorian Gray]

19. I used to live right around the corner from Marble Collegiate

Which means nothing, other than I got to see Liza Minellis' wedding back years and years ago.

[hrmjustin]

20. I like Marble because they give out water during the Gay Pride Parade.

[guillaumeb]

9. An explanation?

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
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]

11. Nope, that's not an explanation.

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]

13. My explanation concerned forgiveness.

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]

14. Yet another belief without proof.

Good example. Thanks.

[guillaumeb]

15. It is difficult to believe, but it seems that we have agreed on something.

Thank you Donald Trump for bringing us into agreement.

[Fix The Stupid]

16. Is the passage 'literal' or 'metaphorical'?

And how do you tell?

[guillaumeb]

17. If one can find a metaphorical meaning,

other than the idiom included in the phrasing, it seems to be a direct admonition that forgiveness is essential.

[trotsky]

18. It is literal when the believer wants it to be literal, otherwise it's metaphorical.

See? Easy.