What the Rise of the Religious Left Means for the Rest of Us [by an liberal irreligious "None"]

Substack ^ | Nov 07, 2026 | Liz Bucar

[daniel1212]

...I did want to write something because I keep seeing the same headline everywhere: the religious left is back. Ezra Klein’s take on the return of the religious left is going viral. Christian Paz at Vox called Talarico’s and Hamilton’s wins the rise of a Christian left.

The AP says the midterms showed the strength of the religious left...

Zach W. Lambert posted a good reminder of this on Substack this week: Talarico and Hamilton are not pioneering Christian faith in progressive politics. The Black church has been leading the way for generations.

Raphael Warnock. John Lewis. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Cori Bush. Emanuel Cleaver, a United Methodist minister who just won reelection in Missouri. And go back further: the very first Black member of Congress, Hiram Rhodes Revels, was an AME minister who took his seat in the U.S. Senate in 1870.

And Black Protestants vote overwhelming blue: According to NBC’s exit poll, about 90% of Black Protestants voted Democratic this year...

But “clergy are heading to Congress” is only part of the story.

Let’s think about Abdul El-Sayed, who became the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Senate...He’s one of at least seven Muslims headed to the next Congress. And CAIR counts a record 97 Muslims (and counting) elected at every level of government nationwide...

The religiously unaffiliated were 27% of the electorate this year, up from 24% in 2024. And we moved left: 78% voted for Democrats, up six or seven points from two years ago, according to both the NBC and CNN exit polls...

In Kansas, according to CNN exit polls, Adam Hamilton (reminder, he’s the megachurch pastor), lost Protestants and Catholics, but won 81% of nones...

In Michigan, El-Sayed lost Protestants and Catholics, but won 76% of nones.

Talarico won 78% of nones in Texas.,,

Openly religious candidates did well with people who don’t claim a religion.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: irreligious; nones

[daniel1212]

A irreligious writer essentially glorying that wickedness won power thru lost souls as men like mega "church" pastor Adam Hamilton (pro LGBTQAI++, etc.) are elected, as the US increasingly becomes a United (almost) States of Satan, and effectively committing suicide, failed the test of prosperity, having forsook God.

Judgment will come, though not by our hands acting like militant Islam.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The United States isn't the most morally decadent country in the world, but it's in the top five (out of 193 countries) and it's by far the largest. Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Spain, and US are my top five.

Historically, without major internal correction (which is rare), it is not possible for any of these countries to last long-term (more than 75 years), and it is questionable these countries last short-term (less than 25 years).

[marktwain]

The United States isn’t the most morally decadent country in the world, but it’s in the top five (out of 193 countries) and it’s by far the largest. Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Spain, and US are my top five.

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You left out China. More corrupt than the USA. Openly persecutes any and all religions. Harvests organs from political prisoners to sell to the highest bidder. Practices infanticide on girls.

Is ruled by a political party which has no moral principles at all.

[vivenne]

And “Reverend” Warnock who ran over his ex-wife’s foot with his car on purpose.

[Jonty30]

I think the religious left wants the blessings of God, but not His morality.