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Related: About this forumChristian Lawmakers Group Blames Satan After Twitter Poll Goes Badly Awry
A group ostensibly representing Christian lawmakers launched a poll on Twitter over the weekend asking if America would be better off with more Christians in elected office.
It didnt go well:
Link to tweet
After more than 16,000 replies, the answer was an overwhelming no, which received 95.8% of the vote. In response, the group accused atheists and Satanists of religious persecution for voting in the poll.
Congress is overwhelmingly Christian, far out of proportion with the people they represent. According to a Pew survey last year, the Senate and House are nearly 90% Christian, compared with 65% of America as a whole.
One in four Americans now considers themselves atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular, a position publicly held by just one member of the current Congress, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who lists her religion as none. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) describes himself as a humanist, while a handful of others havent acknowledged a faith or lack thereof.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/christian-lawmakers-poll-satanists-093416940.html
Faux pas
(15,308 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Aw, Hell No!
Have any of these jerk-offs heard of Thomas Jefferson?
usaf-vet
(6,847 posts)There is not much that happens from the republicans these days that doesn't have Satan taking charge. ignoring the 10 Commandants and the Constitution.
bucolic_frolic
(46,769 posts)that's why the Christians had to slaughter them
Wounded Bear
(60,597 posts)Mersky
(5,176 posts)They just need to accept that folks are done with their hypocrisy. Doesnt take a computer guy to figure that out.
mac56
(17,623 posts)rurallib
(63,157 posts)"Religious persecution" - what a joke. How was any single person or group hurt by this poll?
I recommend total days of prayer through the end of the year - especially on November 3rd - to ask gawd to fix this.