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The secular movement refers to a social and political trend in the United States, [1] beginning in the early years of the 20th century, with the founding of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism in 1925 and the American Humanist Association in 1941, in which atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers, and other nonreligious and nontheistic Americans have grown in ...
Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reaffirmed that the United States Constitution prohibits states and the federal government from requiring any kind of religious test for public office, in this case as a notary public.
Christ by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889, digitally edited to include a MAGA Cap.. Republican Jesus or GOP Jesus is a meme satirizing Republican socially conservative and libertarian Christians whose values appear antithetical to the Gospels, [1] a Jesus who "loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare", [2] and for whom ...
A 2020 PRRI American Values Survey found that of Democratic voters, 42% were Protestant while 23% identified as Catholic. The same survey found that of Republican voters, 54% were Protestant while only 18% were Catholic. [26] A November 2024 Politico Poll found that Evangelicals outnumbered Catholics among Harris and Trump voters. [27]
In 2019, a Pew study found that 65% of American adults described themselves as Christians while the religiously unaffiliated, including atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular", is 26%. [55] According to a 2018 Pew report, 72% of the "Nones" have belief in God, a higher power, or spiritual force. [56]
The Rev. Dr. Stephen D. Jones is co-pastor of First Baptist Church in Kansas City and chairperson of MORE2’s campaign “Call to the Beloved Community, Resisting White Christian Nationalism ...
Prior to the 2016 United States presidential election, African-American Republican Ben Carson emerged as a leader of the Christian right. [172] Other Christian African-Americans who identify with conservatism are Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, [173] rapper Kanye West, [174] Alveda King, and pastor Tony Evans. [175] [176]
Page 328 specifically talks about American civil religion, referencing Jones's book, American Civil Religion. Jones, Donald G.; Russell E. Richey (1990) [1st pub. 1974 by Harper]. American Civil Religion. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-9997-3. Levinson, Sanford (1979). "'The Constitution' in American Civil Religion". The Supreme Court Review.