like: i regret to inform everyone that the american populace is majority religious and that even if you don't like it, that's something that elections have to work around
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Is... Is this whole discourse generated from him saying in his announcement video that he taught Sunday school and prayed about his decision to run?
jul 28, 2025, 10:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Yup! Lots of people here seem to be completely unable to understand that a) lots of people are religious and b) deliberately alienating them is a great way to lose. Or they're just bots/false flag groypers.
jul 29, 2025, 1:09 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, I don't think he made those statements to win political points. They seem pretty sincere and off-hand frankly. Both are factual statements of things he did. It's bizarre.
jul 29, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
The only thing I've learned from bluesky today is that a meaningful majority of the user base has unresolved issues involving their family and church
jul 28, 2025, 8:34 pm • 65 3 • view
Extremely religious 🎯💯
jul 28, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Bluesky not beating the Never Talked to a Minority allegations
jul 28, 2025, 9:05 pm • 3 0 • view
I am an atheist and also ruthlessly pragmatic. Yeah, hold up the cross. Whatever is needed to defeat fascism and preserve religious liberty. Only qualifier is that Democrats have to stand for religious liberty and respect people of all religions and those without religion, which they all do.
jul 28, 2025, 11:17 pm • 6 2 • view
Yes but. On paper that's true, but like 22-23% of those are Evangelicals, a movement widely described, for years, by those in the process of leaving it, as almost completely political rather than spiritual, with services closer to rallies than exegetical sermons.
jul 29, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Plus many Christian denominations exist in national politics basically as hate groups, even while their local churches are organizing clothes drives and ham and bean suppers. The theater and spin of politics erode the sincerity/selflessness of faith, and I think everyone knows that .
jul 29, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I have no problem with what Cooper said, but it’s pretty alien to white Democrats north of the Mason-Dixon. If you’re some mid-info white liberal from NJ or WI it just comes off as weird - even if you’re Christian! It’s just a cultural divide between people who value secularity and those who don’t.
jul 28, 2025, 8:44 pm • 17 0 • view
Good job he's running to be a Senator in North Carolina.
jul 28, 2025, 8:57 pm • 18 0 • view
Yes I know, that’s why it’s ok. He’s playing to his people that think like him.
jul 28, 2025, 8:59 pm • 5 0 • view
I’ve spent nearly my entire life in the Midwest and I just don’t think this is true? People certainly talk openly about religion here less than in the South, but all Cooper did was briefly mention prayer once in a 2 minute video. A typical Wisconsin liberal isn’t going to be weirded out by that.
jul 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Eh 50/50. I grew up in Iowa and had family in northern states. Some people don't wanna hear about your book unless you're the pastor, regardless of denomination. Some of my family was all about it and others while religious didn't wanna hear about other peoples. Like the asshole analogy.
jul 28, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think y'all actually regret informing us. Christians inform us constantly and force every politician to publicly do the same whether they believe it or not
jul 28, 2025, 8:55 pm • 10 0 • view
Sorry, no. You don't get to paint Christianity as merely "a religion" when it enjoys a privileged status in the US. Nones as a group have more in common w/ minority religious groups than Christians as a group do. The people in the US who are least tolerant of religious people are always Christians.
jul 28, 2025, 9:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Christianity is the boot heel oppressing us. no other religion has that power
jul 29, 2025, 6:16 am • 2 1 • view
For the record. This is the christian you're mad at for saying he prayed.
jul 29, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
I don't give a shit about Cooper. I give a shit about the people who used a handful of annoying atheists to launch into pro-Christian screeds veiled as a defense of "religious" people.
jul 29, 2025, 1:48 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah they can vote for non religious candidates That's the workaround
jul 29, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
Actually, in NC, disbelieving in God disqualifies you from holding office. It's in the state constitution. (Article VI sec 8) So they can vote for "less religious" candidates but openly atheist candidates are off the table.
jul 29, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Christ had some pretty progressive things to say, so i think using that would be wise.
jul 28, 2025, 8:34 pm • 22 1 • view
They'd call Jesus a woke communist.
jul 28, 2025, 8:37 pm • 11 0 • view
they already do
jul 29, 2025, 6:15 am • 0 0 • view
Jesus would have been tortured to death in a Salvadorian concentration camp by now.
jul 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 6 1 • view
He was tortured to death...
jul 28, 2025, 10:15 pm • 5 0 • view
But with what passed for due process at the time and without being deported to a Salvadorian concentration camp by people who go rabies-feral insisting that they pray to him and follow his teachings. I'll admit, cold comfort compared to the "tortured to death" part.
jul 28, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view