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Published: 10/27/10

How Evangelicals Will Likely Rebound After Christine O'Donnell's Faith-Based Campaign

By  Paul O'Donnell - Politics Daily
How Evangelicals Will Likely Rebound After Christine O'Donnell's Faith-Based Campaign

If Republican Senate candidate and tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell loses next week in Delaware as polls now predict, she will have been undone by faith -- not her own Roman Catholicism, but by evangelical Christianity. It was the pro-life, former anti-masturbation crusader's appeal to the devout in the primary that have made her so vulnerable to comments she made on Bill Maher's long-cancelled show about dating a warlock -- anyone who had not run as a believer might have simply laughed off her taste in men. Though hanging out with pagans as a young woman amounted to nothing, her ...

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Published: 06/17/10

Sarah Palin's Breasts Are Real; Not So With Growing Number of Faithful

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Sarah Palin's Breasts Are Real; Not So With Growing Number of Faithful

So Sarah Palin has officially debunked the rumors that she's had a boob job, thus sending legions of liberals into despair. For a brief shining moment last week, Palin's critics were hoping they'd finally caught her in a bit of hypocrisy that even her devotees, especially among the Christian right, couldn't possibly forgive. If "Saint Sarah," as Newsweek's cover story dubs the queen of conservative evangelicalism, was caught augmenting what God saw fit to give her, Palin would have to be excommunicated by the faithful. Right? Fat chance. It turns out Christians may be as easygoing about ...

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Published: 12/15/09

Old Time Religion Ain't What It Used to Be

By  Christine Wicker - Politics Daily
Old Time Religion Ain't What It Used to Be

When Americans tell pollsters they're Christians, God only knows what they mean, according to two recent surveys of religious belief.When researchers from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life looked at belief in eight Eastern or New Age ideas, they found self-described Christians were only a few percentage points behind the rest of the population.• Belief in astrology was 23 percent among Christians and 25 percent among the rest of the population.• Belief in reincarnation was 22 percent among Christians and 24 percent among the rest of the population.• ...

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Published: 07/31/09

Non-Believers Losing Faith in Obama: More God Talk Than Bush -- and Same Old Faith-Based Policies

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Non-Believers Losing Faith in Obama: More God Talk Than Bush -- and Same Old Faith-Based Policies

The Secular Coalition for America moved into spanking new K Street offices this week and the swagger – and implicit political heft – that such an address confers on the lone Washington lobby representing America's proudly godless couldn't come at a better time. Back on Election Day, Barack Obama was a favorite of the religiously unaffiliated, winning an overwhelming 75 percent of a bloc that is growing fast – from nine percent of the electorate in 2000 to 12 percent in 2008 – and one that figures to be crucial to Obama's chances in 2012, especially as his ...

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