Atheists Are The Most Politically Active Group In America, Outcompeting Evangelicals
According to the Cooperative Election Study, atheists are the most politically active group in the country, with agnostics slightly behind them.
Atheists show up for more political meetings, donate more money to candidates, and attend more protests than Christians do. We hear all the time about how politically active evangelical Christians are, but atheists are more active than evangelicals in every category of political activity.
Atheists are also overwhelmingly progressive.
Atheists pull more than their weight for the Democratic Party. This year, with resistance to Christian Nationalism at the forefront of Democratic voters' minds, atheist activity has become especially essential.
If you're lucky and you're represented by one or more Democrats after this Election Day... thank an atheist.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.They are active, but they are such a tiny number, and so outnumbered by evangelicals, that they have zero political power.
TomMcGiverin
Level 8
Nov 11, 2022
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Actually, atheists and agnostics are NOT a tiny number. They're the fastest growing cultural minority when it comes to religious identity in the United States. Nones are somewhere between 25-30 percent, with people who call themselves atheists a subset of that. Non-Christians are 40 percent of America and growing, and also tend to vote progressive. The point of this is not that atheists are the majority, but that they have the highest political punch for their size of ANY segment. That's something to be proud of.
Atheist voters are a big part of the reason the mythical Red Wave of 2022 failed to materialize.
@CliffordCook your numbers are way off 30% claim none, 4% atheist and 5% agnostics
I’m an atheist in Alabama and I voted 100% republican today.
I did go shopping and filled my gas tank before I made it to the voting booth so that did sway my decision a bit.
CourtJester
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Nov 8, 2022
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I'm glad to say that the majority of atheists disagree with you, and remember that inflation is global, and can't be reasonably reduced to American politics.
Won't it be great when the economy transitions fully to clean energy and we won't have to fill up our tanks with polluting fossil fuels any more?
@CliffordCook The US actually sets and leads the global economy. Many nations have fallen into a recession when American hasn’t. Everyone falls into a recession when the US does though. The New York Stock Exchange sets the global tone from the US.
The earth is also cleaner now than 80 years ago and we’re using more fossil fuels. The earth has more trees now than it had 80 years ago too. What cleans Co2 from the air??? Can you tell me were the old batteries to the electric cars go??? Can you tell me how much coal has to be burned to make electricity for all of the electric cars???