Are Democrats really "godless"?

Most Democrats — 76 percent — are absolutely certain or fairly certain about their belief in God, according to a 2018 study conducted by the Pew Research Center. That’s not a small number, although it is lower than the percentage — 90 percent — of Republicans who say they are absolutely certain or fairly certain about their belief in God…

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But it is the subject of the religiously unaffiliated that has attracted widespread attention recently.

Most people — 54 percent — who identify as religiously unaffiliated identify as Democrats or left-leaning, according to Pew. About a quarter of the group claim to be Republicans or right-leaning.

Pew stated: “In the U.S., belief in a deity is common even among the religiously unaffiliated — a group composed of those who identify themselves, religiously, as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular,’ and sometimes referred to, collectively, as religious ‘nones.’ Indeed, nearly three-quarters of religious ‘nones’ (72%) believe in a higher power of some kind, even if not in God as described in the Bible.”

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