https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...th/517785/

Some interesting numbers on faith and politics. Naturally, its a liberal magazine so hypocritically demonstrates its prejudices while ascribing prejudice to others, but its still interesting.

"...A Pew Research Center poll last March found that Trump trailed Ted Cruz by 15 points among Republicans who attended religious services every week. But he led Cruz by a whopping 27 points among those who did not....

Secularization is transforming the left, too. In 1990, according to PRRI, slightly more than half of white liberals seldom or never attended religious services. Today the proportion is 73 percent. And if conservative nonattenders fueled Trump’s revolt inside the GOP, liberal nonattenders fueled Bernie Sanders’s insurgency against Hillary Clinton: While white Democrats who went to religious services at least once a week backed Clinton by 26 points, according to an April 2016 PRRI survey, white Democrats who rarely attended services backed Sanders by 13 points...."

Helps explain the speed with which the left believes the ends justifies the means.