I love you all very much so I am going to be as polite as I can here, but "don't talk about God" is, uh, not how you politics in the United States of America and some of you should not be giving campaign advice
Replies
Roy Cooper has never lost an election in North Carolina, going back to 1987. Let’s trust that he knows what to do.
jul 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 42 0 • view
Roy's not going to take their advice. He was good for NC as Governor and trading him in for Tillis is a huge win for diversity, and things that actually elp people. He stayed in the state at one point to prevent the GOP crazy from claiming control (LT Governor) if he traveled.
jul 28, 2025, 4:24 pm • 7 0 • view
An atheist who insists that everyone be atheist is like a Christian who... well, you get the picture #ThereAreManyWaysUpTheMountain
jul 29, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
Mostly it’s just continued irritation that atheists are the one minority everyone agrees it’s okay to discriminate against.
jul 28, 2025, 7:00 pm • 2 0 • view
🎻
jul 28, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm zero percent concerned with his faith, and waaaaay more concerned that, given his age and the political era in which he came to prominence, he will turn into yet another do-nothing Dem who doesn't realize the danger of our situation nor what's necessary in the face of such danger.
jul 28, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Note: I very much hope I'm wrong.
jul 28, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I saw someone earnestly claiming theists shouldn’t even be able to hold office, and apart being a suggestion that we defeat fascism with a different flavor of fascism, it’s also the sort of performative edgelord atheism one should have outgrown by the time they were old enough for a learner’s permit
jul 28, 2025, 4:22 pm • 8 0 • view
I left out the word “from” and now have no recourse but to think about it all day and regret
jul 28, 2025, 5:14 pm • 5 0 • view
"someone" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here lol I struggle to believe these are actual people, as opposed to bots or intentional psyops. Then again, I was convinced Nick Adams was a parody account, so maybe...
jul 28, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess I can’t discount the possibility that it wasn’t a real guy but I did at least see an account repeatedly and earnestly make this case also speaking as an atheist I have known my share of grumpy atheists
jul 28, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I changed my handle when I left usenet primarily due to the sheer volume of edgy, caustic atheism I engaged in as a teen......
jul 28, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
North Carolina in not New York City. The key word should be “tolerance”. That applies to everyone, left and right. I’m a progressive, a Democratic Socialist, and i am a Christian, I pray every day. Jesus was a socialist.
jul 28, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
That's why the key to a perfect democracy is a separation of beliefs and state.
jul 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Especially in North Carolina! Come on people!
jul 28, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I hate organized religion but I'm a results oriented guy and I have to say so far religion has a lot more wins to point to than anyone on this website does.
jul 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Let alone in the South
jul 28, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The number of politicians more beloved than Roy Cooper is very small. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
jul 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 11 0 • view
People literally do not understand that you can be a Secularist person in politics, you don't have to be full on atheist.
jul 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I am a full on Atheist. Even a full on Atheist shouldn't expect the world to conform to their view. That's a bit much.
jul 28, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Those prayer people have lost the plot🥶
jul 28, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
one thing that seems to be universal online is that people give political advice based on the imaginary electorate that only exists in their head instead of the boring old real one that actually exists
jul 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 43 3 • view
legit saw someone say "whoever runs on preventing payment processors from censoring adult content in 2028 will win" the other day and like I wish it was even remotely possible for "how people get paid for things online" to be a major campaign issue in a major campaign, but fuckin come on dudes
jul 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 38 1 • view
No one pays attention to my personal opinion, but if I dress it up as punditry and expertise, maybe they will care?
jul 28, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not the electorate, it's "does anything this person says not appeal to me personally"
jul 28, 2025, 5:15 pm • 2 0 • view
I.e. the one that is made of people just like them
jul 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm very sympathetic to this problem, because actual voters are crazy.
jul 28, 2025, 3:52 pm • 4 0 • view
We're all mad here.
jul 28, 2025, 4:54 pm • 3 0 • view
At least he didn't declare he was an atheist. That would have really set everyone's hair on fire. Speaking as an atheist.
jul 28, 2025, 4:30 pm • 4 0 • view
I doubt you could win a majority of legislative seats in California with an all-atheist party, let alone the whole country
jul 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 6 0 • view
I once saw a map showing religious devotion in US states and European countries. Poland, which most Europeans tend to think of as practically being a theocracy, was slightly less religious than California.
jul 28, 2025, 3:38 pm • 6 0 • view
There's a Thomas Perry novel (Metzger's Dog) where a character in Los Angeles says that "one quarter of the world's religions were founded within fifty miles of here."
jul 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 4 0 • view
also known as "how to lose the black vote in your state with this one weird trick"
jul 28, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I wonder how many of those same people want candidates to be more sincere
jul 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Yankee Atheists have strong opinions about what a North Carolina candidate who agrees with at least 50% of their politics is allowed to say, for some reason
jul 28, 2025, 3:55 pm • 6 0 • view
📌 #pin
jul 28, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Endorsed. I think it’s useful for white people reclaim the Church on the left, and take some notes from how the African American base of the Democratic Party has engaged with religion for decades.
jul 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 14 0 • view
See also
jul 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 11 0 • view
Exactly this. We on the left need to understand where we are and where MOST PEOPLE are, and that we will keep losing over and over if we don't stop trying to wrestle people into something that goes counter their lived realities. We have to understand LEFTIST RELIGION exists (I had to...).
jul 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
If my recently transitioned trans friend can find a loving and embracing and fulfilling Christian community, and if I too can find a progressive Catholic community that welcomes without ANY JUDGEMENT trans and queer and non-white folks, maybe there is no real argument in "no God plz, we're lefties!"
jul 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
So very much here for this, especially as JD Vance is becoming loudly blood and soil nationalistic That ain’t it, from the Declaration, the aspirations in the Constitution, and 250 years of open society iconography like the Statue of Liberty “I lift my light beside the golden door”
jul 28, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess the thing is that while the Declaration and the Constitution and the creation of government were always rooted in some proto form of white supremacy, they have been re-negotiated and re-interpreted in more inclusive ways, especially with the Civil War.
jul 28, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, exactly. And, even in their time, the white supremacist parts were “compromises”, not universal endorsements. The 3/5th compromise got some of the new US set aside for free states; the Connecticut compromise gave the People the House and the planters the Senate…
jul 28, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
America is at its best when it is the place for everyone. My favorite July 4th memory is walking along the Lake Michigan lakefront in Chicago's far north side, with all the people celebrating the country together, no matter where they were from. THAT is America to me, THAT is worth fighting for.
jul 28, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
My best Fourth of July was as Duty Officer on a submarine; with a skeleton crew from all over the country, and a cooler of sodas and cut fruit my lovely wife had brought in for the crew, watching fireworks and getting horns and cheers as boaters drove past.
jul 28, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, the military is another REALLY complicated issue for leftists, and something that I in particular (being from West Germany) really struggle with. Yes, the military is a tool of empire, but not every single individual member of the military is, and uh yeah that's such a can of worms...
jul 28, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
As a German I have a long cultivated suspicion of all things military. But some of the most ardent progressive/leftist people I know are vets. And they too have a complicated relationship with the military, their service, what they did, etc. And I know it's not as simple as "troops bad!"
jul 28, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Meeting people from all over the country, and the bottom 95% of the economic spectrum turns a surprising number of service members into leftists.
jul 28, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’re ever driving the Mass Pike through the Berkshires, think about stopping and seeing the Norman Rockwell museum. It’s not a long stop, but it is a look into a wonderfully inclusive America that can be.
jul 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
And that's before I go into that it is maybe JUST FUCKING MAYBE important to not leave all things religion the frothing-at-the-mouth Evangelicals and other fundamentals. Maybe we shouldn't give religion up without a fight. And uh. Ditto some sort of patriotism...
jul 28, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not saying that we should ban non-US flags from our protests and whatnot. But this is *OUR COUNTRY* just as much (if not more, because ultimately there's more that are NOT them / MAGA / white nationalists / etc.) as it is theirs. And maybe it's a mistake to cede all things America to them.
jul 28, 2025, 3:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Ceterum censeo, both religion and "America" as an idea aren't things we should just reject and leave to the right to exploit and dress themselves in.
jul 28, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Had to look up “Ceterum censeo”, and thanks.
jul 28, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm from North Carolina originally, i am anti-religious, and this is exactly how to win in that state. Everything from his mouth needs to be about why Jesus compels him to feed the hungry, stop eats wars, love thy neighbor. North Carolina is VERY religious and he can't win without being so
jul 28, 2025, 5:24 pm • 8 0 • view
He was a good governor and a nice guy. I am glad he put thought into his decision. If you call it prayer or meditation I just don’t care.
jul 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 4 0 • view
💯. Roy Cooper knows exactly what’s up, plus it’s a genuine statement of faith coming from him.
jul 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I want politics as a whole to be agnostic and free of religious bias. Individual politicians can be as religious as they want for themselves, and even say as much. 👍
jul 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, Josh Stein, the current NC dem governor campaigned heavily on law enforcement (he was the AG at the time) which I found annoying to say the least but hey, he got more votes than anyone else, even trump.
jul 28, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I did a tarot reading and a handstand and I'd always vote for Roy Cooper if given the chance (was prepared for him to be VP honestly)
jul 28, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Many people have never been exposed to self-avowed Christians who weren't amoral monsters. I sympathize. But NC isn't Brooklyn. Going to church is pretty normal here and lots of decent people do it.
jul 28, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s very popular here! He’s got my vote.
jul 28, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It makes me cringe, but I know I’m not a typical American voter and especially not a typical North Carolinian. And it certainly beats throwing my trans friends under the bus to triangulate a path to success. Now, if he starts talking about returning prayer to schools…
jul 29, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
to my European eyes it’s just so… yikes. Giving me the need to roll my eyes *so* hard, plus some very very heavy second hand embarrassment. One‘s faith (or its absence) is usually a very private thing, and certainly not something with which to rationalize a career decision like that
jul 28, 2025, 9:02 pm • 2 0 • view
I am an avowed atheist, and I have no problem with a politician of sincere belief and deep faith talking about how that belief influences them and makes them better people. I have a *big* problem with hypocrites who spout off about their religious beliefs. Roy Cooper isn't one.
jul 28, 2025, 4:48 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm not sure I'd even advise somebody running in San Francisco or Manhattan to adopt Reddit Atheist talking points.
jul 28, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree, here, it's a 'know your audience' moment, but I also think we need to challenge the status quo on politics. Running, where able, on a hard secular campaign. We need to wedge Religion out of politics, and religious institutions, as penalty for what they're participating in, should be taxed.
jul 28, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
it's north carolina! talk about god, bbq, and basketball until you're blue in the fucking face.
jul 28, 2025, 3:51 pm • 4 0 • view
The only thing that we need to get him to do different is get him to convince Janet Mills to run for senate in Maine.
jul 28, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Idgaf. Get religion out of my government. This is a dog whistle and you know it is.
jul 28, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Know nothing about him specifically but politics still IS local. And... The contempt that many on the left have against faith/spirituality/religion is about as helpful as the joyless scolding that we've become known for.
jul 28, 2025, 3:52 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank God you said this-- signed An Atheist
jul 28, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
People can be guided by genuine faith, look at Jimmy Carter.
jul 28, 2025, 3:38 pm • 9 0 • view
I'm as non-religious as you can get, but I feel like a lot of internet atheists seem to think that it's simply being religious in and of itself that is bad. And not, like, whether you are using your beliefs to be shitty.
jul 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 11 0 • view
We need candidates who will look the camera dead-center and say they will have the Marines kill Glonzo.
jul 29, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Actions speak louder than words, and while I don't like public leaders shoehorning their faith into every statement, if they're good on policy I'll stomach it
jul 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s over, the atheist community of North Carolina is too powerful to overcome this gaffe
jul 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 64 2 • view
jul 28, 2025, 3:45 pm • 25 0 • view
I haven't yet seen any NC atheists attacking, just ones outside of NC. But the rest of them escaped containment, that's for sure.
jul 28, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
just one more thing to 'thank' Jimmy Carter for
jul 28, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
As a serious though liberal Christian myself, I'd want to see some effort put into explicitly attributing classic benevolent and altruistic teachings and attitudes -- a la Jesus -- to God. I.e. make it plain "We are not Christian Nationalist bastards."
jul 28, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
The number of people who lose elections after declaring "God told me to run!" makes me think Depeche Mode was right. God's having a big ol' chuckle.
jul 28, 2025, 3:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Never beating the "would rather pass a purity test online than win elections" allegations
jul 28, 2025, 3:26 pm • 34 2 • view
People attacking Roy Cooper from the left for talking about God, in North Carolina, are either: - bots - wedge ops - fools There's really no fourth category to sort them with.
jul 28, 2025, 8:46 pm • 2 0 • view
a lot of esoteric nerds out there who don't understand how esoteric they are giving advice to advertisers who they'd never see as genuine in the first place, and I say that as an esoteric nerd
jul 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 2 0 • view
like uh, if you think the liberal is posting cringe maybe it's because it's not for you lmfao
jul 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm tired of performative Christianity as much as anyone, but ... I also think he's genuine? Picking on him because he says he prays is not a good thing.
jul 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 88 0 • view
Exactly. If we say we don’t want ‘em, the performers will gladly take them instead.
jul 28, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s a more genuine Christian than every single elected Republican! When he’s campaigning, Ted Cruz makes a meal out of putting God back into schools and he doesn’t believe any of it!
jul 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I neither know nor care what Cruz believes, but what he says and does are harmful, and that's what matters. What Cooper says and does seems to be good, and that's what matters.
jul 28, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 0 • view
The man has been in the public eye for a long time. If this was performative, we’d probably have seen evidence by now.
jul 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
he taught sunday school! you don't have to agree with him but he is being quite sincere!
jul 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 70 2 • view
Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school for many years, before and after he was president. I respect Senator Warnock as well, an ordained minister who served in the same church as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, a Democratic Socialist.
jul 28, 2025, 3:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Plus the religious left is a real thing! Like an important thing! Pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams (among others) have been at the forefront of civil rights in this country since its founding!
jul 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 74 5 • view
this too. We have a few Democrats who are theocratic (former NASA director Bill Nelson comes to mind), but tell me Tim Walz is bad for being a practicing Christian and I will wedgie you. Black pastors are at the forefront of social justice and have always been.
jul 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 46 0 • view
The average democratic voter is a middle aged black woman. This whole antagonizing of religion is very far removed from where most democrats are.
jul 28, 2025, 5:14 pm • 6 0 • view
And it's the most innocuous invocation of prayer one can make! He didn't say "god told me to run," be basically said "I thought about it by praying."
jul 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 33 0 • view
yeah I think if you believe God is real and influences your life, this is an entirely reasonable thing to say. Save the complaints for the people who want to make being non-Christian illegal (and deciding who counts as Christian in the first place).
jul 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 21 0 • view
"Where are the good, progressive Christians who represent a positive iteration of masculinity?" "No not like that"
jul 28, 2025, 3:32 pm • 28 1 • view
Love to hope on Bluesky to see what the discourse of the day is and instantly clocking "oh it's one of those"
jul 28, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I think we need to draw a distinction here between the South (+Indiana, Utah, Idaho, Iowa, the Dakotas) and the rest of the country. You don’t have to do all this in states with actually secular cultures. NC is the South, but I think people reserve the right to roll their eyes if this was NJ or OR.
jul 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Good grief, this is NC, it'll be a very long time before God isn't present in our politics by default. And Cooper's brand of Christianity is clearly not the kind to twist government into forcing a narrow set of rules onto everyone else. Battles must be picked, and this isn't one of them.
jul 28, 2025, 5:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes thank you.
jul 28, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Why do you care if a handful of people on the internet are critical of the guy pandering to Christians? Plenty of Christians are already flocking to defend the guy out of their delusional sense of Christian victimhood.
jul 28, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
"You should not be giving political advice" is both badly needed and widely resented criticism on this site.
jul 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view
lol especially in the south lmao
jul 28, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Are people really saying this?
jul 28, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
My opinion is that it's fine to be religious, just be normal about it. Roy Cooper seems normal. There's a vast distance between this and a fascist megapastor doing a podcast on the trans problem.
jul 28, 2025, 4:29 pm • 4 0 • view
I must have blocked at least 50 people in those replies.
jul 29, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
Christianity isn’t the only ‘religion’ that practices prayer. Praying, invoking Great Spirit, your higher self or any deity one chooses is a positive experience. Spiritual practices are actually saving grace. I hope everyone finds something that works for them 🙏
jul 28, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
this is coming from a Jewish atheist who has never prayed a day in his life, let Roy Cooper be Roy Cooper, we need this Senate seat
jul 28, 2025, 3:24 pm • 473 13 • view
My hot take is that a person can only be who they are. That includes but is not limited to politicians.
jul 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 4 0 • view
YEP.
jul 28, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 0 • view
I mean, the man is running for statewide office in North Carolina. You have to know your audience.
jul 28, 2025, 3:36 pm • 9 0 • view
This. There are a good many districts in this state (NC) where you can gauge the outcome of an election by which churches the candidates attend. As an atheist, do I personally like it? No. But you play the hand you're dealt, not the one you wished for.
jul 28, 2025, 4:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Exactly! I’ve never seen a “perfect” candidate, meaning one I agree with completely, but that hasn’t stopped me voting for people when I mostly agree with them and have reason to believe they are open to hearing and considering alternative viewpoints.
jul 28, 2025, 5:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I live in Durham, NC, I am a Jew too, and I love the dude and he is in with a REAL chance of winning this seat, let him do NC politics the NC way FFS!
jul 28, 2025, 3:53 pm • 17 0 • view
when i run for immortal god-emperor in the Marxist-Leninist primary you can bet i will claim to have been chosen by a god (though a different god than the one im running to become)
jul 28, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Does that make you a Calvin…ist. (I’m sorry. The joke was right there and I couldn’t not make it.)
jul 28, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
i dont believe in elections but i do believe in the elect. vote calvin immortal god emperor
jul 28, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll keep this in mind for the future.
jul 29, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
more collin's murkowskis and manchins, just what we need
jul 28, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Cooper isnt nearly as bad as Lurch or house boat boy.
jul 28, 2025, 3:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly. And, as an atheist, to all the people complaining about him being a Christian: Good luck finding enough atheists out there to fill enough seats in the Senate to flip it blue. Or would you prefer to stick with the FAKE Christians who are bending the knee to Trump?
jul 28, 2025, 3:38 pm • 9 0 • view
To me, praying is basically like meditation. So "I prayed about it and decided to do this" is akin to "I gave it a lot of thought"
jul 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 87 0 • view
You say that as if Bluesky would have any influence over the outcome of that election
jul 28, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Hallelujah, you are right. 🎯
jul 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Been saying for years we need to take back the term Pro-Life. Don’t go into long explanations unless needed, just reclaim it & never stop saying it. Have lost count of how many low-interest voters I’ve heard claim to be single-issue & that’s it* (*Works better in states w/o straight ticket voting)
jul 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Cooper does defend abortion rights, anyway governor.nc.gov/news/press-r... There's an OK kind of Christian and a not OK kind, and he's one of the good ones.
jul 28, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Plus, LMAO, some people need their heads examined if they don't get that's basically the first thing you have to say if you're running in MC
jul 28, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Young MC is super religious
jul 28, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Plus, this guy knows how to win a statewide race in NC. Trust him.
jul 28, 2025, 3:26 pm • 15 0 • view
Some of the strongest defenders of the separation of church and state are theists. Not every Christian is a Christian nationalist. I definitely want less religion in politics but I also recognize that the left can't cede religion broadly to the right-wing fascists
jul 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 19 0 • view
I also think we need to broadly support the social justice forms of Christianity
jul 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 17 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯
jul 28, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I was expecting more Jesus from the way you described the video. He taught at Sunday school and prayed before making the decision to run? Big whoop. My fellow atheists seem to be getting themselves in a snit over nothing. Let the NC liberal with a history of winning NC elections do his thing.
jul 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 8 0 • view
I don't care. God is used against us by traitors and thieves and the church itself. I don't care what people are going to shove about a religion anymore.
jul 28, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I said the exact same thing on another post!! I'm an atheist who lives in NC and I would vote for that man over and over if I could. he's a good person and he was an effective leader.
jul 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 16 0 • view
God doesn't have any room in our government. Not one inch.
jul 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Right, like, 3 out of 4 North Carolina residents consider themselves religious share.google/yZTDoaSsbPvi...
jul 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 8 0 • view
Sees percentage of self-identified Christians: Nice.
jul 28, 2025, 3:45 pm • 10 1 • view
Also, it’s North Carolina, goodness me
jul 28, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a shame that Republicans and their MAGAs gave Christianity such a bad name. But politics and religion (any kind) need to separate themselves again.
jul 28, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Going from "I never wanted to go to DC" to "I thought about it, prayed about it" really hits as a "hometown boy called to something bigger Mr. Smith type thing", which--whether it's calculated or not--resonates with people. In addition to his track record in NC, it's a good starting point.
jul 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 9 0 • view