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Cartoonist

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12. My own 2 cents

Reply to skepticscott (Reply #11)

Sun Apr 26, 2015, 07:32 PM

Apr 2015

I'll let cbayer respond. There's usually no holding her back.

I think the article is about the right's misconception that they can play the Jesus card into the White House. The article makes no comparison with Europe because they can't vote in our elections. Sure we're not as secular as Europe, but we're not a Christian theocracy either, no matter how much the repubs want it that way. They will lose every national election from now on until they learn that. Those small states you mention aren't enough. The Dems can count on the west, the east, and the Great Lakes, you know, where the people exist in large numbers.

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The central delusion of the Christian right: Americans aren’t really churchgoers after all [View all] cbayer Apr 2015 OP

The study that has the figures shows Americans do go more often than most large European countries muriel_volestrangler Apr 2015 #1

Comparison to EU countries may not really be relevant in this context. cbayer Apr 2015 #2

In other words, "I want to dismiss it as irrelevant skepticscott Apr 2015 #5

Cut cbayer some slack Cartoonist Apr 2015 #10

Cbayer is capable of answering for herself, yes? skepticscott Apr 2015 #11

My own 2 cents Cartoonist Apr 2015 #12

The writer of the article makes many, many claims skepticscott Apr 2015 #15

cbayer, my crony? Cartoonist Apr 2015 #16

Well, apparently not any more skepticscott Apr 2015 #17

What BS is she sputing? Cartoonist Apr 2015 #18

The article is full of bullshit skepticscott Apr 2015 #19

We must be reading a different article Cartoonist Apr 2015 #20

I see you're going to continue to dodge the points I've raised skepticscott Apr 2015 #21

When I'm out on Sundays, I often notice MineralMan Apr 2015 #3

It varies a great deal depending on location. cbayer Apr 2015 #4

Over time, I've observed a change. MineralMan Apr 2015 #6

Of course you can observe a change and I was not saying you can't. cbayer Apr 2015 #7

I'm not sure there are any data on this, okasha Apr 2015 #8

I agree. It's dangerous to make generalizations about these trends, as the cbayer Apr 2015 #9

Mexico is paradoxical, okasha Apr 2015 #13

Agree. Many here are cultural catholics. cbayer Apr 2015 #14