>>229220Before I start, you should be aware that smugfagging
before you've actually proven your point to be correct isn't very smart. When you
are wrong, which I intend to demonstrate here, it just makes you look like a colossal tool.
Before instructing me to learn to read, you may want to invest in some reading comprehension.
First, let's start with the exact phrasing the study uses:
religious attendance. As in, those who go to a church, et. al.
Not the actual belief in the religion itself.
Sneaky hobbitses.
Second, pay attention to Figure 20 of the study, Pic #2. Notice how instead of grouping every religious individual together and performing their analysis there,
they're also including agnostics and athiests in their 'never attended church' category. Remember, the title of the study is
"Religious Trump Voters".
Very sneaky hobbitses.So right away, we can disprove the study's claims towards religious Trump voters and actual religion on the grounds of academic dishonesty alone. Then again, I can't say I expected much better from an organization called the "Democracy Fund Voter Study Group". Getting flashbacks to 2016 here, goys!
But why stop there? Let's dig a little deeper, really nail the coffin shut for good!
On
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/religious-trump-voters#a-profile-of-trump-voters-religious-participation or Page 16 of the PDF version, please notice what Note #10 says:
>It should be noted that research shows survey respondents often overreport their level of churchattendance. See Daniel Cox, Robert P. Jones, and Juhem Navarro-Rivera, “I Know What You Did Last
Sunday:
Measuring Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Behavior, Belief, and Identity,”
Oho,
now we're getting somewhere! Since this happens to coincide with what I know about human social dynamics, it would appear that the
actual reason for these "biologically traitorous attitudes" is, in fact, caused by the simple desire to fit in.
If you subscribe to the belief that "leftists", however you may define them, are easily manipulated and/or allow others to think for them, you get some bonus corroboration at
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/religious-trump-voters#how-do-religious-trump-voters-compare-to-clinton-voters or Page 21:
>Even still, Trump voters, regardless of religious participation, take more conservative positions than Clinton voters on most issues. Thus, attending church regularly does not turn conservatives into liberals. However, religious attendance may pull conservatives in a liberal direction on key cultural issues polarizing the nation.It's not very
good corroboration, granted, since the section fails to define what level of "churchgoing Trump voters" they're comparing Clinton voters to, nor do they provide any data on the "churchgoing" nature of their sampling of Clinton voters.
More sneaky hobbitses, though some salt grains will be necessary.
So there we have it. My point of Christians not being the cause of your prescribed social malaises still stands.
Learn to read.
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