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Nonreligious Americans Remain Far Underrepresented In Congress

Only one member of Congress is religiously unaffiliated, but more than one-in-five Americans are.

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Hasnain says:

This is kind of surprising in that I thought Muslims were hated more than atheists; and I'm surprised that socialists polled that high.

"Not only that, but atheist is still far more of a minus than a plus for voters. According to one 2014 Pew poll, just over half of Americans said that knowing a presidential candidate was atheist would make them less likely to vote for that candidate; only 5 percent said "more likely" (the remaining 41 percent said it "wouldn't matter")."

Posted on 2017-01-04T15:41:14+0000