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    [OC] Use of the word “god” in official congressional e-newsletters over the last 15 years


    The data and tool to create this are at: www.dcinbox.com . This is my work, and it is now a Thursday for American politics.

    by lindseypcormack

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    2. hyperiongate on

      Catering to those that believe anything that fits their beliefs about what they want to be true.

    3. mattrubano on

      History clearly shows what happens to nations that entwine religion into government…they fail.

    4. sgrams04 on

      Using God to further your own agenda is the definition of taking the Lord’s name in vain. As a practicing Catholic, it really upsets me when politicians and leaders do this. It’s offensive and insulting, it’s happening a lot more, and it’s not getting the backlash it deserves. 

    5. Forking_Shirtballs on

      I still think this data would be much more meaningful on some sort of normalized basis, given the increase in such emails over the last 15 years, and as you’ve noted that Rs send more of these than D’s.

      Something like number of references per email sent by that party would give a more useful trend and comparison.

    7. ledow on

      One way to instantly make me switch off – as an atheist/agnostic – is to mention god for no reason whatsoever.

      Dating profile? Swiped.
      Leaflet through my door? Binned.
      An innocent conversation with a stranger (i.e. the first time I’ve ever spoken to you)? Excuses made and I’d take my leave of you.

      Try replacing that bit of the conversation with something like “because, you know, of all the disabled kiddies… you wouldn’t want to fail them, would you?”, or “because the aliens told me to” or whatever when I was just asking for a cup of coffee or trying to navigate a form or you knock on my door trying to sell me something. See how weird that is? How creepy it sounds? How insane you come across? Yeah, that’s how it sounds to me when you try to invoke a deity that I don’t believe in.

      In the last year of so I’ve had a conversation with an anti-vaxxer and a chemtrail-believer, and each time I just cut it off politely at the next suitable point, made my excuses and moved on. That’s no different, to me to invoking god in some kind of official literature or even a speech.

    9. bean930 on

      This was the main motivator that decided my political preferences back in the early ’10s. Religion or religious favoritism has no place in government. Or it didn’t used to. And only one party maintains that principle.

    10. Jdjdhdvhdjdkdusyavsj on

      There’s been a lot of social and economic changes over the past decades. A lot of people are looking at things today and it’s obvious things aren’t going well so they’re looking to return to what was working.

      I think Democrats really messed up abandoning kitchen table topics in favor of identity politics. Identity politics is inherently divisive, it’s not a good set of ideals. Any time someone says something like “the lgbt community” or “the black community”, the Hispanics, something like that I know they’re not on my side. As if all black people know each other and are the same and they’re going to speak for all black people. No, they’re just Americans, we’re all Americans and dividing us by how we were born isn’t a good strategy for a country.

      All of this nonsense needs to end and we need to work on making people’s lives better, not dividing people up by how they were born and choosing winners and losers based on that

    11. Lord_Bobbymort on

      our country was definitely Christian the whole time, we didn’t just intentionally “frog boil” our country with an incredibly powerful and influential conservative media complex with whom half the country places blind faith upon, who are in direct cahoots with the Republican party, of which the Trump administration hired more than 30 inexperienced contributors to the most popular conservative media outlet that was successfully sued for nearly $1B for defamation who defended itself in another suit by stating “any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism about the statements he makes”.

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