If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
America is an unusually religious nation.
I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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