White evangelical identify as "White Evangelicals". Other nonwhites just identify themselves as evangelicals. There is some white supremacist influence and motives in their wanting to be identified as "White Evangelicals..

@snytiger6 I don't know a single white evangelical that uses the word "White" when describing themselves... Where does one go to observe such a thing other than white supremacist groups?

They have had rabies and heart worm vaccinated!

Far better off than the evangelistic’s obstructionist republican fascists death cult followers!!!

@of-the-mountain True indeed - they've probably had as many vaccinations as me, just different types

Yes, they had these vaccines in stride!!!

The way religious belief works is if a nonvaccinated person dies of Covid-19, then they just didn't believe hard enough or didn't have enough faith. All failures are blamed on the victims, because the religion is "perfect".

...and 47% of white evangelicals is also a bigger number than 10% of atheists.

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Well, in the South, that may be true. I did a quick search and could not find numbers for each nationally. The problem beign all those other Christian sects that make it hard to measure.

Boy are you right about that, and I used to meet lots of them at the local Unitarian church. They were totally into voting Blue No Matter Who and faithful supporters of greedy capitalism, as it seemed to be benefitting most of them, but even the ones that weren't benefitting didn't seem to give a damn about the poor or the working class, just cared about identity politics. As long as you were college educated and and had a white collar job, they accepted you, but if you didn't, they shunned you like trash, and yet still thought of themselves as caring liberals, etc.

And they had no stomach for socialism, The Green Party, or even Bernie Sanders, so yes, they were establishment Dem sheeple.

since when?

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I just assumed the other 10% are made up of a few who have auto-immune or other heath issues, but mostly are the few atheists who lean right politically. Atheism doesn't guarantee intelligence. A few atheists are just contrarians.

No shit. Hopefully after Covid resolves in the US, if it ever does, there will be a greater proportion of us left alive than them. It would probably improve our politics, except that they tend to breed in greater numbers than us, so that will probably keep things fairly status quo.

@TomMcGiverin Unfortunately, I think you're correct. I surely wish they'd all disappear.

@KKGator I'm as guilty as any other non-believers, as I chose to not have kids. And boy do I seem to keep paying for it, esp. with all the believer women in my local dating pool. They about all seem to only want to date men with kids, even tho at my age that should be pretty irrelevant, but it sure isn't to them.

@TomMcGiverin Hope your luck changes for the better soon.

@KKGator Thanks for the support, but I doubt it will. The believers are big on family and, probably for reasons of their own insecurity, even most of the non-religious women in my dating pool on Batch seem to want only men with kids. This is true of both the ones with kids and and the ones without kids. My theory, as I have stated before on here, is that they are trying to hedge their bets and find a man whose kids will look after, comfort, and maybe take care of them when the woman gets older and likely ends up widowed after the man dies first. My guess is these women either don't think their own kids will step up and do that for them, or, if they don't have kids themselves, they assume the man's kids will step up for them.

When you really think about it, how much difference is there between this attitude on the part of 60-something women, and the men who are looking for a nurse with a purse, or at least a nurse, to take care of them in old age? The only diff that I see is that the women are looking for it later on in the game, while the men are looking for it earlier in the process or even right now. So the only diff is in the timing, either way it seems to be about using someone or, in this case, their adult kids....

@TomMcGiverin I hear you. However, not all older women are even looking for a man anymore, for myriad reasons.

Speaking only for myself, I'm not remotely interested in another relationship.
Been there, done that.
Don't have kids either.

When my time is up, I expect to go out alone.
I'm really okay with that.
No regerts.

@KKGator I understand that, and of course, that lowers my odds and shrinks my local dating pool for my age group. But, at the same time, it is reasonable to assume that most or even the vast majority of the women who join a dating site like Batch (esp. the ones who pay for a membership) ARE looking for a man and an actual relationship, with, of course, the occasional exceptions who are just looking for hookups, are still secretly married and looking to cheat, looking only for the ego boost of male attention, and then, finally, the women who are too insecure to actually date and are using the dating site only to find text buddies. I honestly, even after being on Batch for close to four years now, have no idea what % these women on there who are not actually seeking a real relationship amount to out of the total active membership, but I am guessing it amounts to at least 5-10%, based on all of the weird behavior and games I have encountered on there with women who did begin messaging with me.

And as far as women giving up or no longer looking for a man or a relationship, among women in their mid-50s or older, both my therapist and surveys I have read about, have borne that out. The surveys say that a huge % of women have checked out on that, maybe a third or more.

@KKGator
I wii confirm and second your comments as absolutely the truth!!!

That is not 100% but does give us an edge.