The God Gap Helps Explain a 'Seismic Shift' in American Politics
Overall, people of color are more likely than whites to be Christians — and pretty devout Christians at that. Some 83 percent of all black Americans are absolutely certain that God exists. No other group comes close to this figure. Black Christians are far more likely than white Christians (84 percent to 64 percent) to describe religion as very important in their lives. Of all ethnic groups, black Christians are the most likely to attend services, pray frequently and read the Bible regularly. They are also — here’s the kicker — most likely to believe that their faith is the place to look for answers to questions about right and wrong. And they are, by large margins, the most likely to believe that the Bible is the literally inerrant word of God. In short, if you find Christian traditionalism creepy, it’s black people you’re talking about.
Hispanic Americans also tend to possess strong religious values. In October 2020 the New York Times’s Jennifer Medina published a prescient report highlighting Trump-supporting Hispanic Evangelicals. Called “Latino, Evangelical, and Politically Homeless,” it featured this insightful sentence: “Hispanic evangelicals identify as religious first and foremost.”
Yes. Absolutely. That’s exactly why a politics focused on mobilizing by race/ethnicity will not reach them, especially when identity politics is paired with hard-left cultural positions and hostility for traditional religion. Hispanic voters will find a religious connection with many, many white Republicans, and that religious connection can prove far more culturally and politically consequential than any effort to create a politics based on ethnic or racial identity.
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The discussion concerned mockery versus criticism, and the demeaning nickname is an example of actual religion-based offensive mockery that's been used here.
As for examples of religious hatred and and bigoted invective....well, I'll leave that to others.
Neither of them believe that religion should permeate politics.
Pelosi has actually been denied communion and Biden has been threatened with that denial by arch conservatives who represent an extreme political ideology rather the leader of the Church, the majority of practitioners, or the religion itself.
"Frankie Pope Photo Op" 
has clapped back the extremists, not with words, but with actions. He's given communion to both Biden and Pelosi, and he received the vaccine that extremists argue *may* have been developed using cell lines of an apocryphal aborted fetus.
It's horrible when bigots "define" Moslems based on the actions of political extremists who have distorted the religion to suit their violent ideology. It's equally horrible when it's done to Christians.
There are some Christians who find it deeply offensive. It is noted in mainstream dictionaries that the term is "informal" or "offensive".
The Urban Dictionary denotes its hipster connotations:
- people who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, but have a pattern of behavior that is contradictory to the teachings of Christ.
- a christian in name only.
- a religious person who lacks empathy.
- a religious person who is not to be trusted.
Yes, yes we've all heard that "xtian" was a term used by some Christians themselves as recently as 1634.
It's rather like someone insisting that there's nothing wrong with using the offensive term "negro": "It's been used for hundreds of years! Martin Luther King himself used the word!"
I've never heard that before.
and got one.
