[voletti]

[inlightnd]

"Europe's growing godlessness"

This choice of words is interesting. Rememebr the "Godless Communists"? A great deal of the 'Godlessness' was due to the Communist party's persecution of religious people within Soviet borders.

TheEuropean "Godlessness" the author speaks of may be a dilution of the population as a whole, a immigration brings a more diverse population to European countries. The author's own religious beliefs aren't hard to discern. He seems to be in the group who believes anyone not ultra right-wing borderline snake- handling Christian is "Godless".

"At the last election Mr Bush won the Catholic vote by snaring 72% of self-styled traditionalist Catholics. Private polls also suggest that he won significant numbers of Orthodox Jews. Rather than being split between the parties, religious people of all faiths are now pretty anchored in the Republican Party. A Zogby poll last November put the national figure for “religious traditionalists” at 29%, but they accounted for 58% of Republicans."

Voters go for issues. Just ask. The majority of people will tell you who they voted for and why. Few have a laundry list, but are specific. "Significant numbers of Orthodox Jews". That is obviously a pro-Israel vote, not necessarily a pro-Evengelical nod.

[ForGod'sSake]

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[My2Cents]

[Vision]

Why is the religious right as powerful as it is? The question puzzles even Americans. Their country, as a whole, is not getting more religious. The gap between it and European countries has increased, but largely because of Europe's growing godlessness

This is where I tuned out

[television is just wrong]

Well he's got a lot of work to do.

[Freebird Forever]

He promised the strict evangelical group, which has 16m members, that he would work hard to ban gay marriage and abortion, and that their “family values” were his values, too.

Simple political pandering.

His speeches to muslims tell them exactly what they want to hear as well.

How many times has Bush stated that islam is a religion of peace?

~~nuff said.

[The Iguana]

30% of traditionalist Catholics vote for Kerry?

I find that hard to believe.