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Kasz216 on 30 September 2009
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ManusJustus said:
Kasz216 said:
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.

Oh I'm sorry, I'm 2% off from whatever poll you recall.

So you believe that a politician wouldn't lie to you?  Especially in regards to something damning to their political career?  Perhaps Larry Craig thought he was in the girl's barthroom, Ted Haggard didnt have any happy endings with his male massages, and Mark Foley had the wrong number (numerous times).

Obviously, the majority tends to gets their way, but if that were always true we wouldn't have a black president and only 10% of women in Congress (read: there are more white people and more women than men).  Even so, it wouldnt matter if someone is Protestant or is lying about being a Protestant, as long as people think he was Protestant they wont vote differently.  Most people aren't child molestors, but Mark Foley was able to stay in office by not telling people about this.

With educatd people being more likely to be athiest/agnostic, politicians being more educated than the general population, and the fact that politicians have no issues lying to people, I'll continue to think that there is more than one athiest in Washington.

Actually it's 4%.

The 8% is being generous from a poll that had a different method of asking questions.

Do I believe politicans wouldn't lie to me?  Of course not.

Do I believe they'd lie about being atheists?  Not really, because they wouldn't be believable at it unless they spent at least as much time at it as a religious person.  Its ridiuclious how those evangelicals can "sniff" you out with all the random religious questions they ask... and you always end up at their stuff... even if your a democrat.

I mean hell... look at that debate he and McCain ahd with that "family values" guy that swore Obama in.  He had some hard hitting religious based questions.

 

I mean have you heard Obama's speeches?  If he's lieing about beign a Christian... he's had to put more work towards "faking" christian then most christians put towards actually being christian.  Guy uses mroe biblical refrences then an Alabamian preacher.