I said what I meant to say... And since it wasn't your OP, I still don't give a rat's patoot if you think it's relevant or not. My point was, and still is, that the GOP can no longer count on its stronghold on "religion = GOP", and people are tuning out the church in droves...particularly younger ones.
It looks to me like people - particularly young individuals -- are tuning out political faith in droves
That's fine with me. Tune out political faith - and you get faith. Faith should not be political --- be that self-absorbed tea-party elitism, or tax-hungry collectivism (as another poster would say). Faith should be faith -- there shouldn't be any "ism" attached to it.
People use religion all the time to control others, whether it be to attempt to increase morality, or use it as a way to defraud their flock. Trying to influence politics is part of this.
Are the younger generations more free-spirited and rejecting religion or just replacing it with new gods like consumerism, the internet, secular humanism, ecology, etc?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
