Posted on 11/30/2012 9:15:36 PM PST by filbert00
Imagine a demographic that has doubled its share of the population over the past two decades, is up by 25 percent over the past four years, and now accounts for as many as one in five Americans. Imagine that this demographic votes disproportionately for one political party—to the tune of 70 percent for Obama versus 26 percent for Romney in the 2012 election. Sounds like a demographic that ought to be of interest to politicians, journalists, and activists, right?
That demographic consists of people who describe themselves as atheist, agnostic, or religiously unaffiliated—the “nones,” as they’re sometimes called. And it hasn’t attracted anywhere near the attention it deserves in the postgame analysis of the 2012 election.
(Excerpt) Read more at religiondispatches.org ...
First you need a conscience.
I agree they a a growing group, which will ultimately wield no influence over the course of human events.
Revelations 3:15-16 (KJV)” I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
I’m sure that Rove fears the Conservative demographic the most. The last two wishy-washy candidates he’s backed have been trounced, largely because conservatives stayed home.
The Catholic church is an anvil that has worn out many a hammer. Sandra Fluke, Katherine Sebilius and the phoney messiah will be footnotes long after the church is stll around.
Conservatives stayed home to re-elect Pharoah Obama?
Nice work there.
Darwin was right.
Why would he fear them??? He’s part of them.
I love your analogy.
I learned to shoe horses at a school in Memphis, Tennessee.
I worked in the “Blacksmith” shop- Forging and Heat Treating at Newport News Shipbuilding.
Many years ago I was a member of the Intl. Brotherhood of Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers. (AFL-CIO)
I still have my first anvil from the Memphis days; can’t count the number of hammers I’ve owned.
Will the man who first brought government healthcare and fines for falling to do something, as well as the one who implemented homosexuals calling themselves married please step forward? Enough of the bull. Romney has never proved himself to have the slightest inclination other than to forward the liberal agenda. Difference from Obama? Romney actually works for it.
I think you’re being excessively generous with the ‘footnotes’ appellation.
Yes if over 2000 years it has triumphed over the likes of the Romans, Stalin, Mao I’m not all that worried over the survival of the church. The US I am concerned about.
The current clown administration could f_ck up a crowbar in a sandpile...
No, they didn't stay home to re-elect Obama, they stayed home because the candidate that Rove and the GOP elite forced on us was 2,000,000 votes less motivating than even McCain.
Stay tuned. Rove will do it again in 2016 with Jeb Bush.
Are we missing something here?
As in "Evangelical Conservatives stayed home to re-elect Pharoah Obama...
Nice work there.
Darwin was right.
No more Papal States. Did leave them Vatican City though.
True but so far it’s held off what may be it’s biggest threat..Islam.
An aside did you know that the Vatican has a library that has 21 MILES of bookshelves? Many of the works are some of the oldest manuscripts in existence. It’s so vast that no one even the head curator knows all that it contains. They have a full time staff that all they do is restore day in and out. It’s only accessible to scholars and no one is allowed to leave with a book. Accept one person of course. They are putting much of it as they can online so you can read it from home.
Is this writer joking? It’s out that Rove is an atheist, even though he didn’t advertise it. Hitchens asked him about it.
Well, President Obama successfully made Catholics not equal citizens of the Unites States. And so far the bishops can’t even decide if they are against it.
If memory serves, Napoleon gave orders to protect the place (though some damage to other documents may have occurred?)
later, Llorente spent some long months in the library researching his book on the history of the Inquisition.
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