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I have seen three different polls on Trump on this web site. He has a very low rating in “our” community. What is interesting is that the agnostic community makes up +/- 25% of the US population. [Kansascity.Com]. Html

I realize this number varies based on where you get your information but for certain, more and more or us are coming out. The question I have is why don’t we have a political voice like the Christian Right. Remember our constitution says freedom of religion (or not). The Christian Right is critical of the Islamic countries that foster state supported religions and, yet we do the say crap here. Don’t you the hypocrisy in America? There are 435 members are in Congress and 100 are in the Senate. I wonder how many of them are openly atheists or agnostic?

rpmazzella 6 Jan 7
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I think your way high on the agnostic community being anywhere close to 25% of the US population. I’ve lived here in western Oklahoma all my life and only have 2 openly atheist friends. Here where I live people were so disgusted with the democrats Trump carried my hometown with 87% of the vote and all 77 counties in my home state with about 70% of the vote. Even though I am atheist and don’t like the religious influence in the Republican Party I fully support Trump as I think the country will do a lot better as he’s a businessman and knows how to stimulate the economy. The overwhelming majority of the religious people are just practicing religion because of tradition anyway so I have no problem with most of them.

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Not everyone who voted will come from the US. I, for example, am from the UK - and this will skew the numbers negatively since I don't know anyone outside of the US who thinks he's doing a good job - everyone I talk with think he's a vile piece of scum as both a human being and policy maker.

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[huffingtonpost.com]

Although the list is from 9/19/2013 there are atheists in Congress.

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As far as I know, unless it's changed in the last year or so, there are no openly atheist or agnostic representatives or senators in the U.S. Congress. There was one a few years ago — I forget his name — who had served many terms but wasn't public about his non-theism; he came out of the atheist closet and lost his next election. If anything, I figure the actual percentage in Congress who lack religious faith is probably higher than in the general population, but it's still seen as political suicide to openly acknowledge it.

I thought Obama pretended to be christian

Obama didn't pretend to be christian, he is a christian. Although I know or knew lots of folks who sat in church every Sunday just like all the evangelicals in the US today, they haven't read the bible and think that they are just fine. However, Obama embodies everything decent that a good christian should be.

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I could never claim to know what's in someone's heart, though I think a lot of us suspect that Barack Obama is among those who doesn't really believe but goes through the motions for the sake of appearances. But, at the very least, he didn't seem to be the sort who used his religion as a guide for how he governed. So, either way, I respect how he conducted himself while in office, even when I occasionally disagreed with him on certain policies and executive decisions.

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