Everything else being equal, the more religious the individual in the U.S. today, the higher the probability that the individual identifies with or leans toward the Republican party. I called this the āR and R ruleā in my 2012 book on religion, found the phenomenon alive and well in my 2014 review of Gallup data, and now, nine years later, Gallupās data confirm that this religiosity gap is more evident than ever.
Americansā political identity is a powerful correlate of a wide range of Americansā attitudes and behaviors, including, in particular, a wide range of attitudes about hot-button political and social issues. And we know that political identity is related to views of the national economy, views of the nationās institutions, happiness, perceptions of the nationās most important problems, and a variety of other measures. It is thus not surprising that political identity would also be related to religion.
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Living in the American South this is pretty plain to see, however in the American Northeast Catholics are starting to do the same, which hasnāt been the norm until recently and even the Pope has noticed.
My thoughts on it are that Right wing corruption affects everything it touches, the religious leaders wanted to batter down the wall separating church and state, and now many of them are losing their congregants to congregations that are lining up behind their new Orange Joseph Smith, because politics and religion are now intersecting within the Right wing. The MAGA Qult isnāt going away anytime soon, the Global Right Wing conspiracy is implementing their state religions and unless we increase mental healthcare and deprogram these individuals weāre going to have a religious extremist insurgency.
Iāll leave you with this quote from Barry Goldwater:
Except weāre not just dealing with Christian Nationalists, weāre dealing with Islamic and Hindu nationalists, and simply Chinese Nationalists and other fascists, all working together to carve out their own territories.
Being a Catholic in the NE used to be more about ethnic group/culture/family, and now it has become a political thing, just like the South. Makes sense. I had good reason to leave the Church, so I did. Apparently, I wasnāt alone.
Absolutely, I grew up in a NYC Irish Catholic family, and it was as much about being Irish-American as it was about being Catholic, and it was similar with all of the Italian Catholics that were married into the family or that I grew up with.
Now I have far too many family members and friends replacing Jesus with Donald fucking Trump, and it sickens me. Iām also non-practicing, Iāve moved onto Agnosticism trending very close to outright Atheism, but I at least respect the humanistic aspect of āthe teachings of Jesusā, Trump is anything but humanistic, heās much more opportunistic, Iām not sure how these deluded people could confuse the two.
It doesnāt matter what you call it, once you notice the church has gone too extreme you wonāt ever go back. Especially Catholics, the American Catholic Church pushes sin. To save your soul you must leave because by its own dogma those who support what they ate doing will burn in hell for eternity.
There us a strong divide between Orthodox Catholics and Liberal Catholics to the point the extreme Orthodox are pushing the Liberals out of the religion. People are leaving because they donāt agree politically with what their Diocese is saying, especially on Family Planning. Even myself argued with the Diocese over such issues originally put in place after the black plague ravaged the human population.