(December 9, 2013 at 4:52 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: This is one for the colonials.
To what degree is Christianity in America tied up with the Republican / right wing political position?
On the xtian forum I also frequent there seems to be a very strong correlation between the two. In fact it's tough to find a Christian over there who is not a Republican, sometimes it seems that the theology and the politics blur together. More than once I've had to remind people that the US constitution is not a religious document.
But of course there is lots of selection bias there. So what's the real story?
Define religious document. The constitution may not declare God to be 'x' nor does it say one has to worship god a certain way, but it does allow for state sponsered church, or so thought men like Jefferson Adams and the other founding fathers.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06-2.html
