I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ -Obama agreement thread

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ManusJustus said:

I doubt that all Christian politicians are actually Christian. In America, 10% of the population is athiest/agnostic, and the more educated you are the more likely you are to be in that group. We have several hundred top politicians in Washington, and I only know of one open athiest (Pete Stark).

I dont see 10% of the population being athiest/agnostic and only 0.01% of politicians being athiest/agnostic, expecially when they tend to be more educated than the genral population. It makes sense to me that there are athiests politicians who claim Christianity for political gain, knowing that being an open athiest could be political suicide.

Actually it's more like 4-8%.

Also... uh.  If you'll notice the race and gender numbers don't match up either when it comes to government.

Reason being... the majority is always going to be over represented in a democracy because it's majority rules, and have a nautral positive affinity to someone more like them.

 

So if Joe, Bob and Mike have the same views,  Joe is a Protestant, Bob is a Catholic and Mike is an Atheist....

 

Joe is going to win... and there are a lot of Joes who want to be in government.