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The Old Testament applies the term "elect" (Biblical Greek: ἐκλεκτος; Biblical Hebrew: בָּחִיר) to the Israelites insofar as they are called to be the chosen people, people of God, or faithful to their divine call. The idea of such an election is common in Deuteronomy and in Isaiah 40-66. [1]
The Bible says, “All unrighteousness is sin.” ... Our voting decision ought to be based on our perception of which party would best govern the country and fulfill the responsibilities of ...
In the United States, a 2006 survey indicated that 2% of those who did not register to vote cited religious reasons. [2] The same survey reported that 22% of voting-age Americans are not registered to vote, meaning that 0.4% of all voting-age Americans did not register to vote for religious reasons. [2]
Catholics now comprise 25% to 27% of the national vote, with over 68 million members today. 85% of today's Catholics report their faith to be "somewhat" to "very important" to them. [34] [35] From the mid-19th century down to 1964 Catholics were solidly Democratic, sometimes at the 80%-90% level.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The State Board of Education is set to make its final vote later this week on whether the English and Language Arts textbooks provided by Texas will feature stories from the Bible.
But in Lancaster, Chester, Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties, the vote count increased by 27,080 ballots — about 2.56% of the region’s 1,083,531 total votes tallied.
In Scandinavia, the Faroe Island's Centre Party is a bible-oriented fundamentalist party with about 4% of the vote. However, the Norwegian Christian People's Party , the Swedish Christian Democrats and Danish Christian Democrats are less religiously orthodox and are similar to mainstream European Christian Democracy .
Before voting in the morning and again before voting in the afternoon, the electors take an oath to obey the rules of the conclave. If no result is obtained after three vote days of balloting, the process is suspended for a maximum of one day for prayer and an address by the senior cardinal deacon.