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THE GOOD NEWS

The christers like to talk about the "good news". Well, look at this.

Non Believers on Rise in Congress

Granted this is only 10 people but it is also 10 people who are willing to be counted as "nones".

Based on my own experience of expedient christians, especially in the political arena, this is quite high.

I really don't care one way or another about who is and who is not a christian. Or who is or who is not an ardent religious of any kind.

I am more interested in how they act on it.

There is a wide range of beliefs that can easily be accommodated without making a noise about it.

Take me, for example. I believe in God, a Higher Power, but I don't have a religious bone in my body. They were all removed in my youth as a methodist and later on as I worked in various church's music program. A paid worker.

I have heard and seen more phony baloney in the pulpit and in the pews than most observers. Every Sunday and sometimes more for maybe ten years when I was really into it. Part time before that.

I played for them all regardless of creed, even the Unitarians who barely have one. Well, humanism, but that doesn't take too much mumbo jumbo to get it going.

The thing is that Congress is still out of whack with the population. Take a look at the imbalance in 2008.

There are way more "nones" in the public at large than in Congress.

But then again, I bet that it is similar in the actual practice of the politicians.

And, actually, I think the figure for "nones" is low. Many people when asked will lie toward having a belief than to say they do not.

OK.

It has been awhile since I wrote about this disparity and the tendency toward religious pandering. That is it for awhile.

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