Where’s the religion in the presidential campaign?

[rug]

Adam Parker
Aug 27 2016 1:00 pm

For those interested in how religious values influence political elections, this campaign season has been one for the record books.

Donald Trump, who’s viewed by Americans as the least religious of the candidates according to a Pew Research Center poll, has won a significant portion of the evangelical Christian vote. Candidates who are open about their conservative religious beliefs, such as Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, have fallen by the wayside.

A not-particularly-religious Jewish candidate, Bernie Sanders, garnered millions of supporters and started “Our Revolution,” a new political movement, before conceding to his rival Hillary Clinton, who grew up in the United Methodist Church. Trump identifies as Presbyterian and has attended the theologically liberal Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, part of the Reformed Church in America, where Norman Vincent Peale once preached.

And unlike most previous national elections, religion hasn’t been particularly prominent in 2016. In the past, presidential candidates have tended to emphasize their religious beliefs, ensuring photos were taken of them attending church. They made a show of delivering speeches to religious groups. Sometimes they spoke explicitly about their faith.

http://www.postandcourier.com/20160827/160829516/wheres-the-religion-in-the-presidential-campaign

[OnDoutside]

1. The Hillary hate is a uniting force. Ideally that should be

Challenged now, as to how they could support someone who counters everything they've ever stood for. Up to now, it's just been a matter of fact. Just because it's Hillary Clinton isn't enough, when the alternative is Donald Trump.

[Dustlawyer]

2. No disrespect, but I do not miss it.

It has been used as a tool by too many amoral politicians for me.

[rug]

3. The only salutorious effect of trump's campaign is to stun the religious right into paralysis.

They can't decide what to do, where to go.

It's been a long forty years.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. As usual it is so pervasive that most people don't even notice it.

Both parties and both candidates put their religiosity on display.

[rug]

5. Neither one is likely to seek Sam Harris' endorsement.

Even though one of them is much closer to his views.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Religion carted away by two Corinthians while Trump attacked Clinton for not being religious. . nt

[rug]

9. "Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this?

Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once?"

2 Cor 17

[rurallib]

7. evangelicals supporting Trump prove what they really are after

earthly power behind a veneer of religiosity

[rug]

8. The ones that don't really have nowhere to turn politically.