Monday, February 18, 2013

Religious Nuts... Dangerous To Normal People And An Efficiently Functioning Society

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In the new Gallup poll, one is counted as "very religious" if they "affirm that religion is important to his or her daily life and that church is attended either weekly or almost every week." That's 40% of Americans. Another 29% claim to be "moderately religious," meaning "they don’t attend religious services regularly (or that faith is not very important to them, but they still attend church regularly). It probably isn't hard to guess that the most religious states are also the poorest, most racist, least educated and most supportive of right-wing political candidates. Here's the list of "very religious: with Mississippi as #1, of course. The percentage in parenthesis was Romney's winning vote share in 2012.
Mississippi.......... 58% (55%)
Utah.................... 56% (73%)
Alabama............. 56% (61%)
Louisiana............ 53% (58%)
Arkansas............. 52% (60%)
South Carolina.... 52% (55%)
Tennessee........... 50% (59%)
North Carolina.... 48% (50%)
Georgia............... 48% (53%)
Oklahoma............ 48% (67%)
To put this into some kind of context, let's look at what Gallup found to be the least religious states and how they reacted to Romney in November.
Vermont............... 19% (31%)
New Hampshire... 23% (46%)
Maine................... 24% (41%)
Massachusetts....... 27% (37%)
Rhode Island......... 29% (35%)
Oregon.................. 29% (42%)
DC........................ 30% (7%)
Nevada.................. 31% (46%)
Hawaii................... 31% (28%)
Alaska................... 31% (55%)
Connecticut........... 31% (41%)
Washington........... 31% (41%)
Notice the correlation? Belief in fairy tales, superstition and an authoritarian father figure living in the sky correlates positively with a political platform based on greed, selfishness, hatred and bigotry. And it always has.

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At 2:19 AM, Anonymous WhyNot said...

Lol, why am I not surprised?

"Notice the correlation? Belief in fairy tales, superstition and an authoritarian father figure living in the sky correlates positively with a political platform based on greed, selfishness, hatred and bigotry. And it always has."

You summed it up perfectly. On our blog, everyone is agnostic/atheist, except a young woman who is catholic but very broad-minded (never goes to church except to admire Notre-Dame-de-Paris cathedral architecture and listen to the free organ concerts).

HOWEVER... for years now, we've been plagues by 2 fascist racist born again fucktard women, Barb and Jeanette; Barb gave up a long time ago, but Jeanette is still at it weekly if not daily, hating all of us, making death threats and worse. The full jesus-loving treatment, lol. She lives in North Carolina.

 

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