Reader’s Comment’s

Issue 218 – December 26, 2012

Editor: “Religion Finally Dead?” is a great article.  I actually believe that spiritual renewal is taking place in America.  I know that is an outrageous point of view, but just because a turnaround is taking place, it doesn’t necessarily appear in statistics.  If you have not read God is Back by the editors of the Financial Times, it is a good read.  Blessings at Christmas to you all, Bruce Eberle

Editor: Regarding “Religion Finally Dead?” here is a link to my views on the matter http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/irreligious_people_on_the_rise_or_just_suspicious_polling_practices.html Tom Trinko

Editor: Regarding “Religion Finally Dead?” for sure the “media” have little time for the details and even fewer readers of their messages care a wit! Sadly, leftist intellectuals exploit the situation to serve their agenda to undermine our culture as you have demonstrated in this thoughtful analysis of the “details” of the Pew study. You are likely a “voice in the wilderness” as our Nation continues relentlessly on the path to decay from within. Still there is hope that the sorry end is not inevitable. Thanks for your message which is quite timely during this Christmas season. Though the battle is often discouraging it is unquestionably worth our commitment. Ron Leahy

Editor: Regarding “Religion Finally Dead?” the media and elite spin on the Pew report is a ploy right from Saul Alinsky in his “Rules For Radicals:” create a problem, advertise the situation, tell the public how well the pro-forces are doing and how poorly the opponents are doing and claim victory. That has been used By ACORN, unions, protesters and the media for years. We don’t like religion it has rules so let’s denigrate it , mock it and claim victory is what we are seeing. James Poulsen

Editor: Regarding “Religion Finally Dead?” according to a Breitbart Big Government article, “President Obama’s electoral victory in the 2012 election cycle was greatly helped by his massive victory with a previously unnoticed voting bloc: the irreligious. While statisticians focus on the impact of the Hispanic vote in swing states, it turns out that those who do not attend church and consider themselves religiously unaffiliated broke huge for President Obama in the swing states. Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer pointed out: In Ohio, Obama lost the Protestant vote by 3 points and the Catholic vote by 11, but he won the “nones” — 12 percent of the state’s electorate — by 47 points. In Virginia, Obama lost Protestants by 9 points and Catholics by 10 points, but won 76 percent of the “nones,” who were 10 percent of the electorate. In Florida, Obama lost Protestants by 16 points and Catholics by 5 points, but captured 72 percent of the “nones.” They were 15 percent of the electorate. Similar results were seen in states including Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.Nationally, Mitt Romney carried religious voters by a wide margin, particularly Protestants (+15) and Catholics (+2). The irreligious voters said their top priorities were same-sex marriage and abortion. It was no coincidence when the Democratic Party tried to remove God from the platform – and it didn’t hurt them overall.” J