Pew Report: Newly
elected Congress 88% Christian (Connecting the Dots:
Pew Research Center & Soros Funding, All Networking)
Like channeled water is the mind of the king in
Hashem's hand; He directs it to whatever He wishes.
PROVERBS 21:1
(THE ISRAEL BIBLE)
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ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ BIBLICAL NEWS JANUARY 5, 2023
Pew
Research Center released a report on the
religious composition of the recently-elected 118th Congress.
Christians make up 88% of the voting members of the new Congress compared with only 63% of US adults overall. 469 out of 534 total members self-identify as Christians. This is the lowest number since the Pew Research Center began analyzing the religious affiliation of the House and Senate for the 2009-2010 session. Of these, 303 identify as Protestant, 148 as Catholic, 9 as Mormon (CLS), 8 as Orthodox Christian, and 3 as Muslim.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-R) identified as a Messianic
Jew but she has publicly described herself
as a Christian.
Only one member of the new Congress, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
(Independent-Arizona), identifies as religiously unaffiliated. Rep. Jared
Huffman(D-Calif.) describes himself as a
humanist, and 20 are categorized as having unknown religious
affiliations.
20 members of Congress have unknown religious
affiliations, either because they declined to answer CQ Roll Call’s query or
because the answers were inconclusive.
Pew noted that the Senate and House members are “largely
untouched” by the ongoing decrease in the portion of Americans who identify as
Christian and the comparable increase in the share of those who say they do not
have a religious affiliation.
63% of Americans currently identify as Christian as compared
to 78% in 2007. 29% of Americans currently say they are religiously
unaffiliated as compared to 16% in 2007.
33 identify as Jewish, one less than the previous
Congress, accounting for 6% of the Congress, as compared to the general
population which has a Jewish population of 2%.
Both chambers are dominated by Christians numerically.
268 out of 271 Republicans identify as Christians as compared to 201 of 263
Democrats.All nine members of Congress who are Mormons are Republicans while
Orthodox Christians are evenly split, with four from each major political
party. Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of newcomers to Congress are Protestant;
a bit more than half (55 percent) of incumbents identify with that branch of
Christianity. There are fewer Catholic first-timers than returning members of
Congress (22 percent compared with 29 percent).
Connecting the Dots:
Pew
Charitable Trusts sponsors the Pew Research Center (think
tank) and a funder for the New America Foundation.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Pew Charitable
Trusts, the New America Foundation and the Sundance
Institute.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society and is Jonathan Soros’s father.
Jonathan Soros is George
Soros’s son and a director at the New America Foundation.
Henry W. McGee was
a trustee at the Sundance Institute and is a governing board
member for the Pew Research Center (think tank).
Resources: Past
Research
Pew: 65% of Americans
Don’t Trust Media (Past Research on the Pew
Research Center)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/11/pew-65-of-americans-dont-trust-media.html
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