Why do Democrats attend church less often than Republicans?

[lapauvre]

Liked the previous poll, but it didn't give me an option.

Could be, like a bunch of the founding fathers, that they are
deists.

Could be, they resent the use of the Christian pulpit for
political propaganda.

Could be they are atheists or humanists.

Could be, as so many families do these days have two working
parents who need the sleep.

Could be they aren't Christians.

Could be they read the bible and pray in a closet rather than
be hypocrites making loud protestations of phony faith in the
synagogue.  

Could be a lot of things.  So, what's your reason?

I am five of the above.  Got a new designation?

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. I don't need a middle man to speak to God.

nt

[Cat Atomic]

2. First, who says Democrats attend church less that Republicans?

Some study by the Heritage Foundation?

[cthrumatrix]

13. exactly....rove in action...this is BS

[Lone Pawn]

3. I've got a new poll option for ya...

Perhaps some Democrats actually do go to church, and would like to vote for that.

[lapauvre]

22. That wasn't the question

The media broadcast that some 60 percent of republicans regularly attend church, while some 60 percent of democrats did not. Someone else started a poll to see why people attended church. I decided to see why people did not. The other poll is available to you in this general discussion room.

[camero]

4. Money has made the church corrupt.

Christ's teachings are no longer a part of the church. If they ever were.

[eissa]

5. Who says they do?

That's rw crap. Just because we don't invoke the name of God for political purposes does not mean we are not spiritual. I attend church services (not as often as I should probably, but that's most of the country), and I'm fortunate that the priests of our particular church do NOT bring up politics during the service; I have never heard any of our priests even mention the word abortion or the name of any political leader. Instead, they focus on teachings of the Bible (I know, what a concept!)

[adamrsilva]

7. A majority of Democrats are Christian

they just tend not to be the more fundamentalist type that Republicans lean to.

[arcane1]

6. where do you get that info?

hell, I know more church-going Dems than Repubes

[Yupster]

17. Maybe they just don't vote

Here's from 2000 Exit Poll

Attend Religious Services More Than Weekly
Gore 36 %
Bush 63 %

Weekly
Gore 40 %
Bush 57 %

Monthly
Gore 51 %
Bush 46 %

Seldom
Gore 54 %
Bush 42 %

Never
Gore 61 %
Bush 32 %

[Lars39]

8. No one's business but your own why you go or do not go to church.

Why do we have to justify our beliefs and subsequent actions to anybody, least of all the government or Coulter? Reminds me of the 2nd question asked on the first Sunday back after missing church: "Why weren't you at church last Sunday?" (Q #1 is "How ya doin'?") It is a form of controlling behavior to ask this question.

[TacticalPeek]

9. Less sin?

[nannygoat]

31. LOL!

Definitely less hypocritical!

[RUexperienced]

10. Too many democrats can only tolerate urban, innercity churches

I want to know why nobody cried fowl when Carol Mosley Braun was ENDORSED form the pulpit in a sermon two weeks ago.

The AP carried the story about the preacher who was being tired of being used by presidential candidates, mentioning Dean by name.

But then it casually mentioned that he also endorsed CMB.

WTH?

[GOPFighter]

11. I have too much self-respect...

...to worship any diety that allows the things that have been done in his name and has done nothing about it. Nothing!

Earth to God: they kill, they lie, they rape, they mutilate, they hate and use you as justification, and your response for the past 2000 years has been.....????

[Beearewhyain]

12. Hey Atheists

Get thee to the Landover church and thou shalt be saved...

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[jonnyblitz]

14. one of my favorite sites.

This is a case where parody isn't far from the truth.

[Toots]

15. I think your whole premise is flawed.

I believe Democrats are far more Christian than Republicans in all ways. I believe Democrats attend church more frequently and believe in the teachings of Christ and actually follow those teachings much much better. It is obvious to me Republicans have never listened to what Bush*'s favorite Philospher has said. They don't respect a single thing Christ promoted. I doubt seriously Christ would have attended a wrestling match or a Nascar race or watched an Ah-nold movie. All of the GOP's favorite activities would have been railed against by Christ. Money-changers and hypocrites.

[lapauvre]

29. It isn't my premise

This was a poll taken by some group. Since I do NOT attend church, and I was curious as to why democrats may not attend church, I thought it would be interesting. It has been.

[Bandit]

32. Well I agree with Toots ~ The whole premise is flawed

I agree with everything she said. Republicans don't know what being Christian really is. It is obvious with every attack they make and Coulter is the very worst. I would venture to bet she hasn't stepped foot in a Church in many a year if ever.

[SOteric]

16. I'm a life-long liberal, progressive and Democrat

and I do regularly attend services of faith.

[Kat45]

18. I go to church every Sunday, and I ain't no stinkin' republican!

I also attend other things at church 2-3 nights a week. My pastor and I have had conversations about how neither of us can stand to see or hear bush* on TV.

[xxqqqzme]

19. I have always distrusted any

one shouting their faith @ me.

[IranianDemocrat]

20. So many damn secularists on DU.

friggin pinkos!!! :-)

[Lefergus70]

21. Churchgoing is not a useful measure of good and evil

The poll seems based on a fraudulent - and very American - conception: that only religious people are good and trustworthy. If you accept that, then you see the preacher Pat Robertson, founder of the Moral Majority, as a man of viture even though he makes violent and extreme statements to national TV audiences and has befriended genocidal African leaders like Charles Taylor because of investments in mining that have made him wealthy. I see and hear "religious" men and women who display no remorse or feelings whatsover for the death of innocent people in preventive wars, and they are considered good people. By contrast, atheists and lapsed churchgoers who express sadness and outrage over the death of innocent people are considered bad.

Religion is too grey an area for polling. I've been a regular Christian churchgoer since childhood (I'm 69), but if I take to heart the pacific, love-all-humanity teachings of Christ I could find myself in conflict with the fundamentalists who dominate the political scene today.

[lapauvre]

28. Agreed.

And there is much more that has been said....

[lapauvre]

23. I can't believe on DU being so misunderstood

This was not a judgmental poll. Indeed, after setting it up, I answered it myself.

There is a slightly earlier poll with the name Ann Coulter attached to it, and that is the one I went to first. But it didn't give me options.

I decided to create a poll myself to give myself a viable option.

I did so.

For pete's sake, don't get so upset. It's just a poll.

The original poll, the one which didn't satisfy me, was all over the cable news networks last week. Don't know who did the poll, but it seems likely Coulter was involved in it.

That poll, the one to which the original poll on du was apparently responding, did not give enough options.

The question on that poll was "Why do you go to church?" It offered three or four choices.

My question is "why do you not go to church?" It offered ten choices.

The poll offered up to the public by the media said democrats didn't attend church in almost exact proportions as republicans DO attend church.

I thought it would be interesting to poll, in a democratic room, why this might be so.

Not a big deal.

I think it is possible, since I am a democrat and do not attend church that there might be reasons for the poll presented to me on the media.

That's it.

[durutti]

24. I am an atheist and a humanist.

And I think organized religion is detrimental to America.

[lapauvre]

25. This is the location of the poll

on DU which prompted me to create my poll:

bryant69 (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-08-04 09:18 PM
Original message
Poll question: A Poll for those who go to Church and Ann Coulter


Just a hypothetical question.

Ann Coulters latest article alleges "The only Democrats who go to church regularly are the ones who plan to run for president someday and are preparing in advance to fake a belief in God."

So I thought I'd take a short survey to see why those of us who go to church go.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[kaitykaity]

26. The Thugs are so mindnumbingly stupid that they need

to be told what to think, how to feel, and so on.
They are followers who need an authoritarian figure
to feel safe and secure and superior in the world.

JMHO.

[morgan2]

27. religion, especially organized religion

is for people who would rather accept what has been done in the past as truth instead of come to their own conclusions. It fits right into the Republican idealogy. New ideas bad, old ones good.

[Chovexani]

30. I'm Pagan, that's why

Nature is my church. I meditate in the park.