Re: Why you should care that Americans still believe in God:
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the Republican party would no longer hold the majority.
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There is nothing basic to xtrianity that supports a Republican platform. There are Jerry Falwells and there are others very tolerant left of middle idealogies, both xtian. A person chooses their religious strain, as most religious people on here attest to - they studied others and chose one. There core approach to life doesn't follow from their religion, their religion follows from their core approach to life.
IOW, what attracts one to a specific strain? Something about it fits into their worldview so they 'adopt' it. You don't find that people say, "I disagree with everything about sect ZZ but I'm joining anyway because it is the true faith."
Other faiths have the range of conservative and tolerant adherants, usually divided into sects but there is often a full range of views within a sect. Conservatism is a worldview/mindset, xtianity is just the current way a lot of it is expressed in america, it may still be the dominant political force even stripped of religion, although religion does make a great delivery method.
It's not hard to conceive of a charismatic tolerant left leaning xtian coming forth and rallying populace with rhetoric about love and sharing and equality, rather than the the current 'my morals or else' tone now in vogue.
Although you're right about the situation, I think the link between the right and xtianity is arbitrary and not inherent.
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