Which is one more reason to take on the religious crazies, who count on the support and the numbers of all Christians to prove how powerful a lobby they are.
But "mainline" Christians won't do that.
Here's an example of how evangelical Christians view poverty, for example:
So much for Christian charity: Evangelicals blame the poor for poverty, which makes them a lot like other Republicans
A new poll from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation shows just how tight the hold of the Republican Party over right-wing Christian evangelicals really is. Its results showed that 46 percent of all Christians and 53 percent of white evangelicals said that “lack of effort” was “generally to blame” for the economic condition of poor people. Americans who were atheist, agnostic or had no religious affiliation, on the other hand, overwhelmingly said that “difficult circumstances” were more to blame for a person’s poverty, by a margin of 65 percent to 31 percent.
Non-evangelical Christians, on questions of morality, agree more with atheists and agnostics than with evangelical Christians. Yet it's the atheists that everyone is trying to convert. It's the atheists in the "opposing camp". No, you twits, it's the idiot fundamentalists over there who are against what you *think* about
compassionate public policy. Atheists are against what you *believe*, which doesn't have a damn thing to do with how countries are run (or it shouldn't). When you use your ability to think and reason, you land closer to common atheist positions.
Yes, atheists think you believe stupid things. Put that aside, and realize that the people who are the dangerous ones are not the atheists, but the people who not only believe similar things to you, but don't think about anything else.
