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The report found that religious groups like the Protestants, Catholics and Jews had a greater representation in Congress than in the general population. Jews, who make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, held 6 percent of the Congress. Buddhists, Mormons, Muslims and Orthodox Christians held roughly the same proportion of the Congress as their share in the population.
There was, however, one group that was grossly underrepresented the religiously unaffiliated. The religion none make up for nearly 23 percent of the U.S. population, the analysis showed, but its adherents hold only 0.2 percent of Congress, with Sinema of Arizona as the only member who described herself as religiously unaffiliated.
The Washington, D.C., nonprofit think tank used data compiled by CQ Roll Call for information on the religious affiliations of members of Congress and compared it with Pew Research Center survey data on the U.S. population.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-congress-091600714.html
msongs
(67,413 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Protestants are faith alone, which is kind of like a get out of jail free card
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)but Crist-like. They sure as hell aren't going to be forgiven for their dasterdly deeds.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)It doesn't mean that they have sincere religious beliefs -- they are politicians, after all.