The more religious you are the more likely you are a right wing idiot.

[Warren Stupidity]

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/bigger-political-predictor-religion-how-often-you-go-church-n335306

[edgineered]

1. a firearms enthusist and his entourage came into the bike shop

they saw the bumper sticker on the back of a goldwing to their liking. it read "I would rather vote for a Mormon than a Moron".

They looked for my approval. With a big smile I replied, "he voted for both!" There was no more laughter that day.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. The message from the pulpit is seldom oriented to the left.

The few Liberal Christian leaders we can name are often muzzled by church authorities. If there was ever a hint of a leftward bent in our churches, it has been nearly extinguished in my lifetime. I may remember a time when that was not so, or it may be that my own experience clouds my perception.

The fact is, the most well publicized preachers aren't talking about feeding the poor or clothing the naked. Their general hatred is palpable. If churches hope to stop bleeding membership, maybe they should engage in some self reflection.

If one subjects oneself to right wing indoctrination every week, what should we expect?

[mountain grammy]

3. Nobody gets out the vote better than the preachers..

for the believers, there's no better motivation than burning in hell.

[liberal N proud]

4. It is called indoctrination

I no longer attend organize church services because you are pressured into group think.

If you don't attend this many services a week or don't belong to this many different groups within the church, you are not a good Christian. I have even had them tell me that you need to be a republican if your a Christian.

They have played the wedge social issues to gain control of the clergy and church goers alike.

[trotsky]

5. In other news, water is wet.

These stats don't sit well with some, so you'll likely get a lot of "well, the data is all over the place" hemming and hawing were you to post this in some of the more toxic groups on DU.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. That forum became exceptionally toxic over the weekend. nt.

[trotsky]

7. No shock there.

Word is, someone took 40 days off to become more pious and closer to their god. Seems like when a lot of Christians do that, they get more assholely and judgmental. So much for the Christian god being one of love and acceptance.

[truebrit71]

8. By not posting in an internet forum?

Yeah...I bet that was a REALLY tough sacrifice....

[trotsky]

9. Right up there with suffering on a cross, I'm sure.

[truebrit71]

10. Probably worse...

...

[Curmudgeoness]

11. For some people,

I suppose that giving up all their friends and admirers is a sacrifice, along with not being able to be nasty to people who don't agree with them. That is the sole purpose of some lives.

[cleanhippie]

27. By not posting in ONE sub-group of one internet forum.

That, may friend, is true sacrifice.

[truebrit71]

28. What an underwhelming "sacrifice"...one might say...thread-bare even...

...

[trotsky]

30. Well, the important thing is that you make a big deal of it.

Piety only counts when you can show it off to others, ya know.

[truebrit71]

31. Indeed...

[beam me up scottie]

32. So it's a matter of

judge me by this one action and not by all the other things I do and say?

Very christian.

[trotsky]

33. By jove, I think you've got it!

One can be as much of a complete and utter asshole as one wants - just give up posting to a website for a few weeks and you too can be a PERFECT CHRISTIAN!

[Cartoonist]

17. I see no difference

Caustic as ever.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Is that what happened?

It was almost civil in there for a while.

[Stuckinthebush]

12. "I attend church more than once per week"

That is my personal hell.

Can you imagine??

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Lots of Fundy's are big on the Wednesday night thingy. n/t

[Stuckinthebush]

14. I guess some have to have constant indoctrination

so they don't go crazy and start thinking for themselves.

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. Well...that's the entire thing, isn't it?

It is in the best interest of the church, in what ever form it takes, to continuously hammer the message or the followers might actually think for themselves.

And we just can't have that, now can we?

[Cartoonist]

16. I lived that Hell

In my seven years of parochial school, I had to go to church EVERY day. I was given a pass on Saturday, but I had to go to confession on that day so that I could recieve Communion on Sunday. That is child abuse, plain and simple.

[AtheistCrusader]

21. I'd rather light my nuts on fire.

[Stuckinthebush]

26. That might happen spontaneously

if I went to church multiple times per week.

[Omnith]

18. That makes sense.

[progressoid]

20. So, this could actually be good for Democrats,

since religious attendance is dropping.

[AtheistCrusader]

22. It is, and yet, SOME PARTIES around here get palpatations over it, and lament the decline, and will

attack you if you suggest people find churches more in keeping with their values.

Because that's... bad. Or something.

[trotsky]

23. Lament the decline?

Naw, they just close their eyes and pretend it's not happening. Folks leaving religion TOTES STILL BELIEVE IN GAWD YOU GUIZE. I, a poster on an anonymous Internet message board, give them my official approval and stamp of support which of course means a lot because the pope reads DU for my guidance as you all know.

[nil desperandum]

24. Sadly

religion is only one indicator in a laundry list of why right wingers are idiots....

[AtheistCrusader]

25. Yo, you best check your privilege, man.

Or something like that.

Privilege

It's a word all right

[RussBLib]

29. Captain Obvious strikes again

Next thing you know, someone will conduct a study that says that Fox viewers tend to vote Republican.