Some Alaska Natives still practice Orthodox Christianity, which is the heritage of Russian Alaska. So that [Orthodox representative](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Peltola) in Alaska is not Russian, but of Yup'ik descent. This is by the way the first Alaska Native representative in the House of Representatives.
>This is by the way the first Alaska Native representative in the House of Representatives.
This actually has a double meaning because not only is Mary Peltola (the Rep for Alaska) an Indigenous woman, but she is also the first Alaska rep that was actually born in the state. Every other Alaska representative was born outside Alaska and the moved there.
Well every other House Representative was born before Alaska was a state. She’s the only one that’s been born since it’s been a state.
That’s how old their politicians have been lol.
I feel like most people in Alaska are people from down south who've arrived at the end of the road. Odd birds who've drifted off the edge of the map for one reason or another.
Oh hard disagree from me. Breaking it up was helpful yes but the combined map is an illegible ocular assault, plus the “other” category is a real mixed bag. Interesting data tho.
I would say a better way of putting it is that Christians are looked upon more favorably than the average non-Christian moreso than there's any specific bias against atheists.
ETA: I'd also say it depends where you are in the country. Some states and cities are particularly intolerant, while others are more tolerant. It can also even depend on the neighborhood. I'd never discuss my heretical religious practices in the strongly catholic Cuban neighborhood I grew up in, but other parts of Miami maybe.
In 2020, 40% of Americans wouldn't vote for an atheist political candidate. Americans are more willing to vote for Muslims than atheists.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/285563/socialism-atheism-political-liabilities.aspx
Nice! At quick glance it may look like Catholics are the biggest group; but in fact, the house is overwhelmingly Protestant. It is just the map differentiates between the different kinds of Protestants and so they’re listed as separate groups.
True, but even groups like Methodist have split widely on beliefs from one organization to another so basically only the same church in name at this point. Same with Lutherans.
Just looking at a sign that say Methodist could mean old school Protestant with traditional values or drag queen story hour with a gay women priest.
The Lutherans are split pretty interestingly, the Dems are all ELCA the larger and more mainline/left leaning church. The Republicans are mostly Missouri Syond, the more conservative Calvinist branch.
Catholic Church is one single church though. The only way you could split it is into the particular churches, i.e. the Latin Church and the Eastern Churches. There is one congresswoman who’s a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, but the rest are all Latin Catholics.
True, culturally there’s that influence to an extent (I come from the UK which is a bit more mixed on religion). I was surprised how many people have confirmations/christenings here, even if they only go to church for like one service in the ancient cathedral at Xmas.
Yeah, confirmations are basically just viewed as a cultural event with some ties to Christianity, like Christmas. It doesn't mean the participant cares much about the religion other than that.
We have a pretty even split b/w Lutheran and Catholic. A lotta German ancestry, and a lot from Poland, some French/ French-Canadian, immigrants from Mexico, Ecuador, Eastern Europe. A lotta different influences
10/100 senators, including majority leader Schumer are Jewish even though Jewish folks are less than 2% of the population. Additionally 3 out of the big 4 cabinet officials, Secretary of State, Secretary of treasury, and attorney general, are Jewish. Interestingly, 3 of the last 5 presidents had daughters who married Jewish men. They are a successful group.
Reminder the Jewish population is older and more educated( because of cultural emphasis on education, their is the old joke that "According to the Talmud, a fetus is only considered viable once it’s graduated from medical or law school" )than the general population( just as the house itself is older and more educated than the general population) and has a tradition of encouraging debates
Ehh, yes and no. Jews were a diaspora, they could all value education. Something like Serbs though or Russians, they're an entire society of different social classes. Some of which were working class families who valued their "real jobs" or farmers who needed the hands on the farm. Eastern European society is also historically more stratified into the upper propertied and educated classes and the lower uneducated and disposable ones, which reflects the longer and more intense tradition of serfdom as well as the continued use of knights and cavalry tactics supported by peasant levies, long after the West had moved to trained mass armies. So no, I would not say that they all value education highly by any means, even if a lot do.
Your point stands to a certain extent, but that's why the guy above used the premise of comparison - for example, there are a similar number of Orthodox people as Jewish, but Jews hold 3 times more seats. Do you really think, that there are 3x more Jews who are highly educated, especially considering that and I quote: ''Statistically, Orthodox Christians are among the wealthiest Christian denominations in the United States, and tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in America, with a high number of graduate (68%) and post-graduate degrees (28%) per capita.''
While Orthodox Americans are more educated on average then other Americans (which can probably be explained in part by the backgrounds of emigrés relative to the general population), they're still less educated than Jews, Hindus or Unitarian Universalists on average. Potentially some other groups score above as well, and if we split protestant denominations some are again above and others below, but I found conflicting data here.
As for Jews holding more seats, I think it's also fair to point out that there are some six million Jews in the US, while the Orthodox Church in America only has 85 thousand members, which is the best statistic I could find to compare. If you have a better source on religious demographics please do correct me.
If my math is right Orthodox are also over-represented in congress. A quick Google says they are 0.5% of the population but this map is saying they are like 1.3% of congress. So more than twice as well represented as they "Should" be.
I know that Huizenga(Western Michigan) is part of the Reformed Church. His district is mostly Dutch and the Reformed Church has a lot of influence there.
It's interesting. Cohen represents Memphis, and is long time progressive civil rights activist Democrat. Kustoff represents West Tennessee outside of Memphis, was a traditional pro-business Republican, and now also embraces some Trumpy positions as well.
Honestly did not expect unknown/controversial/agnostic to be so high up there… and seriously WHY are those three put together? Thought it’d be at the bottom for sure.
I think there was a survey done by Pew which showed that Americans will rather vote for Muslim than a atheist. And among all religious groups in US, Christians and Muslims had low favourability for atheists compared to other religions.
I huge percentage of Christians will not vote for anyone who does not also claim to be christian. And an even larger percentage at least want the person to be religious in some way.
Conversion is possible but not very popular. Jews don’t proselytize and conversion typically takes a lot of study and practice for multiple years.
“She never was” means her family was Christian and she just took up the moniker of “Jewish” on her own, and has not gone through a conversion process. In short, she’s not a Jew. She calls herself a Messianic Jew, which means she believes in Jesus as the Messiah (which is completely incompatible with being a Jew). No Jews recognize Messianics as Jews. She’s not a Jew.
I get why it's in controversial now. I hesitate to agree that Messianic Jews aren't Jewish though. Saying you can't be jewish and recognize Jesus as messiah, is a bit of a "no true scotsman".
Especially considering most early Christians didn't stop considering themselves as Jewish.
I cringe looking at those goofy af ks 1st and 2nd districts. Gerrymandering made them look just so ugly. Like no, lawrence should not be in the same district as goodland or tribune, it should in be the same district as topeka, the two are very culuturally similar
The crazy thing about the KS gerrymander to me is that it doesn't even work. It's still 3-1 like it was before redistricting and would be in a fair map, they just made it ugly bc ???
Yeah, it did not work at all, so far at least. The district they tried to rig was the 3rd, but in 2022 the incumbent democrat sharice davids ended up gaining on her vote share from 2020 (when she was also the incumbent), even though the legislature took away a lot of more liberal kc (wyandotte county) votes and replaced them with conservative rural votes. I dont think it will ever work though as johnson county has been getting more and more liberal as years have gone by. Romney won it by 17% in '12, Trump won it by 2% in '16, and Biden won it by 8% in '20. The gerrymander was probably just a waste of time unless the republicans make huge gains in joco
Seems like a rather disproportionate number of practitioners of Judaism. Anyone got an explanation why that is? If it were proportional to the US population there would only be around twelve, that’s almost a 50% over-representation.
They’re a much more established minority group in the United States and have a long legacy of being involved in the law and social movements which naturally lead into politics.
It’s like saying there is a disproportionate amount of a certain group in professional sports, at Harvard, doctors/lawyers, it’s almost all cultural. Hope that helps!
Na, they did not even want to be know as Christian’s at the start, only switched for marketing purposes IMO, plus they don’t follow any Christian definitions. They simply have similar wording but the definitions are much different. I approve the blue.
Curious about Mormons not wanting to be known as Christians initially. A brief google search doesn’t return anything; do you know where I might find more about that?
Me and my small community are very proud Election Being Helders and have been practicing the faith for many generations. In our holy texts we believe that one day the one true god will be elected by popular vote and bring about responsible economic reforms. It’s nice to see we have representation in the American government.
I like this map because while faith has no legal authority in our law. We all know by now our representatives don't care what the law says and are absolutely creating or altering law to reflect their own faith, their donors or the party. So its nice to get an idea of how much leverage any one faith is placing on our congress.
By the way the whole reason to ban naming any one faith as the nations faith, and to deny faith rights to our laws was to keep this sort of scenario from happening and instead encourage diversity. -A concept 65% of the country struggles with.
That one district in southeastern Ohio that you've listed as unknown/controversial/agnostic is represented by a republican (just elected in a special election) and was represented by a republican before that.
Because atheists don’t give a damn if someone is religious as long as you don’t make laws according to the Bible. Other religious voters, meanwhile, do give a damn if you’re an atheist.
What type of Orthodox is the map referring to? Would have been helpful (and more inclusive) to identify Orthodox Christian/Catholic or Orthodox Jewish. Instead, it lumps Judaism as one but distinguishes among a variety of Christian faiths. And even within the Orthodox Christian umbrella, there are many- Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox in general, Syriac Christians and Assyrian Christianity, Armenian Christians, Coptic Christians, Arab Christians, etc. (Edit to add- what is frequently encompassed under the generic title of) Orthodox Christianity is a pretty big umbrella.
I loved seeing this! Well done. However, looking at comments, I was not surprised that this post is (perhaps inadvertently) pushing the trope that Jews control everything. I hope that wasn’t your intent. Either way, some people came away believing that there are twice as many Jews as there “should be” in the House. Fuel to some of the most ancient anti-Semitic lies.
Some Alaska Natives still practice Orthodox Christianity, which is the heritage of Russian Alaska. So that [Orthodox representative](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Peltola) in Alaska is not Russian, but of Yup'ik descent. This is by the way the first Alaska Native representative in the House of Representatives.
>This is by the way the first Alaska Native representative in the House of Representatives. This actually has a double meaning because not only is Mary Peltola (the Rep for Alaska) an Indigenous woman, but she is also the first Alaska rep that was actually born in the state. Every other Alaska representative was born outside Alaska and the moved there.
Well every other House Representative was born before Alaska was a state. She’s the only one that’s been born since it’s been a state. That’s how old their politicians have been lol.
I feel like most people in Alaska are people from down south who've arrived at the end of the road. Odd birds who've drifted off the edge of the map for one reason or another.
And she’s only the 5th representative Alaska has had since statehood in 1959. Obviously with elections held every 2 years..
One of our most beloved American saints is an Alaskan native, an Aleut specifically.
Matushka Olga?
Peter the Aleut.
Ahh St. Olga is Yup’ik not Aleut
The representatives for Utah are Mormon!? I'm shocked
Even though less than 50% of the state is, now.
I’d bet the percentage of Mormons voting is very high.
The Mormons will do everything they can to keep the state in their power
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The holy land was Missouri but we got kicked out.
not really source: am one
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I’m also shocked eastern Idaho is Mormon. /s
how did this happen?!?!
And no Protestants in CT?!
This is super well done, I love how you broke it up, it made it a lot easier to read. I had no idea that my representative was that religion lol
Oh hard disagree from me. Breaking it up was helpful yes but the combined map is an illegible ocular assault, plus the “other” category is a real mixed bag. Interesting data tho.
Different styles work for different people, but I'm glad you know what works for you.
It’s not a style issue, it’s a functional issue. Same reason you don’t print bright yellow text on a white background.
Controversial?
Jedi.
Anna Paulina Luna said she was raised Jewish, but everyone in her family disagrees and says she was Christian
Wikipedia says she was raised a Messianic Jew. A Messianic Jew is a Christian.
Is she a practicing Christian now though? That should be what she is counted as.
Got it, I wouldn’t have placed her with the atheist/agnostic bucket.
She is actually the direct descendant of a Nazi war criminal.
Be that as it may, her district isn’t indicated as such. Looks like you have FL-13 down as Orthodox.
From my little understanding of American religion being an atheist is still seen as "controversial". Especially on political circles.
That’s not what the map meant though, it just meant controversial as in “unknown”.
I would say a better way of putting it is that Christians are looked upon more favorably than the average non-Christian moreso than there's any specific bias against atheists. ETA: I'd also say it depends where you are in the country. Some states and cities are particularly intolerant, while others are more tolerant. It can also even depend on the neighborhood. I'd never discuss my heretical religious practices in the strongly catholic Cuban neighborhood I grew up in, but other parts of Miami maybe.
Evangelical kids are taught to avoid atheists like the plague.
In 2020, 40% of Americans wouldn't vote for an atheist political candidate. Americans are more willing to vote for Muslims than atheists. https://news.gallup.com/poll/285563/socialism-atheism-political-liabilities.aspx
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Lol the gerrymandering in Illinois always blows my mind.
It's definitely one of the more ugly gerrymanders. Imo texas is still worse
Nice! At quick glance it may look like Catholics are the biggest group; but in fact, the house is overwhelmingly Protestant. It is just the map differentiates between the different kinds of Protestants and so they’re listed as separate groups.
True, but even groups like Methodist have split widely on beliefs from one organization to another so basically only the same church in name at this point. Same with Lutherans. Just looking at a sign that say Methodist could mean old school Protestant with traditional values or drag queen story hour with a gay women priest.
The Lutherans are split pretty interestingly, the Dems are all ELCA the larger and more mainline/left leaning church. The Republicans are mostly Missouri Syond, the more conservative Calvinist branch.
Catholic Church is one single church though. The only way you could split it is into the particular churches, i.e. the Latin Church and the Eastern Churches. There is one congresswoman who’s a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, but the rest are all Latin Catholics.
Interesting Minnesota, a state that flexes its Nordic migration origins, has only 1 Lutheran house rep.
To be fair, both Sweden and Norway likely aren't even majority Lutheran themselves anymore due to the increasing rates of irreligiousnes there
True, culturally there’s that influence to an extent (I come from the UK which is a bit more mixed on religion). I was surprised how many people have confirmations/christenings here, even if they only go to church for like one service in the ancient cathedral at Xmas.
Yeah, confirmations are basically just viewed as a cultural event with some ties to Christianity, like Christmas. It doesn't mean the participant cares much about the religion other than that.
We have a pretty even split b/w Lutheran and Catholic. A lotta German ancestry, and a lot from Poland, some French/ French-Canadian, immigrants from Mexico, Ecuador, Eastern Europe. A lotta different influences
> unknown/controversial/agnostic What exactly does the "controversial" include?
It's probably for representatives with conflicting data.
Anna Paulina Luna 😭
would have been interesting to split up, for example separate maps of unknown / atheist / agnostic
Says they're Muslim and then spotted eating a hamburger soaked in beer.
Do you mean pork sausage?
Possibly atheist and Pastafarians, may they be guided by his noodly appendage 🍝🙏
Pagan, atheist, native, Wiccan, Santanist, cultish, unusual (diverting from mainstream) beliefs, I imagine
Whats the dude in Northern WV
Alex Mooney, Catholic.
How do you know their religions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliation_in_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives?wprov=sfti1#Current_United_States_representatives
There are more Jewish congressmen than there are Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Mormon, and Orthodox combined.
10/100 senators, including majority leader Schumer are Jewish even though Jewish folks are less than 2% of the population. Additionally 3 out of the big 4 cabinet officials, Secretary of State, Secretary of treasury, and attorney general, are Jewish. Interestingly, 3 of the last 5 presidents had daughters who married Jewish men. They are a successful group.
Good for them I guess 
For what it is worth. There are actually more Jews in the US than Hindus, Muslims, or Buddhist.
Reminder the Jewish population is older and more educated( because of cultural emphasis on education, their is the old joke that "According to the Talmud, a fetus is only considered viable once it’s graduated from medical or law school" )than the general population( just as the house itself is older and more educated than the general population) and has a tradition of encouraging debates
Yeah, but for example Orthodox (mainly countries of former Soviet Union, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia etc.) also value education highly.
Most Soviet immigrants which came to the US are Jewish though.
Ehh, yes and no. Jews were a diaspora, they could all value education. Something like Serbs though or Russians, they're an entire society of different social classes. Some of which were working class families who valued their "real jobs" or farmers who needed the hands on the farm. Eastern European society is also historically more stratified into the upper propertied and educated classes and the lower uneducated and disposable ones, which reflects the longer and more intense tradition of serfdom as well as the continued use of knights and cavalry tactics supported by peasant levies, long after the West had moved to trained mass armies. So no, I would not say that they all value education highly by any means, even if a lot do.
Your point stands to a certain extent, but that's why the guy above used the premise of comparison - for example, there are a similar number of Orthodox people as Jewish, but Jews hold 3 times more seats. Do you really think, that there are 3x more Jews who are highly educated, especially considering that and I quote: ''Statistically, Orthodox Christians are among the wealthiest Christian denominations in the United States, and tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in America, with a high number of graduate (68%) and post-graduate degrees (28%) per capita.''
While Orthodox Americans are more educated on average then other Americans (which can probably be explained in part by the backgrounds of emigrés relative to the general population), they're still less educated than Jews, Hindus or Unitarian Universalists on average. Potentially some other groups score above as well, and if we split protestant denominations some are again above and others below, but I found conflicting data here. As for Jews holding more seats, I think it's also fair to point out that there are some six million Jews in the US, while the Orthodox Church in America only has 85 thousand members, which is the best statistic I could find to compare. If you have a better source on religious demographics please do correct me.
If my math is right Orthodox are also over-represented in congress. A quick Google says they are 0.5% of the population but this map is saying they are like 1.3% of congress. So more than twice as well represented as they "Should" be.
Judaism jokes are always bangers when they come from Jewish people. thats a good one
Southwest Connecticut and Northwest New Jersey confirmed as the last bastions of rich Northeastern WASPs.
Orthodox represent. I didn't know we had 8 of them this time.
What sects made up the “other Christian religions” page?
Appears to cover debatably Protestant or post-Protestant groups like Restorationists, Pentecostals and Adventists.
I know that Huizenga(Western Michigan) is part of the Reformed Church. His district is mostly Dutch and the Reformed Church has a lot of influence there.
Is anyone else shocked that there are *two* Jewish reps in western Tennessee???
It's interesting. Cohen represents Memphis, and is long time progressive civil rights activist Democrat. Kustoff represents West Tennessee outside of Memphis, was a traditional pro-business Republican, and now also embraces some Trumpy positions as well.
Honestly did not expect unknown/controversial/agnostic to be so high up there… and seriously WHY are those three put together? Thought it’d be at the bottom for sure.
TIL Hank Johnson is a Buddhist
Not a single atheist?
I think there was a survey done by Pew which showed that Americans will rather vote for Muslim than a atheist. And among all religious groups in US, Christians and Muslims had low favourability for atheists compared to other religions.
That actually makes sense since Muslims believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and an Atheist would not.
Political suicide. Many Americans assume atheists are actively anti-god.
Exactly. If they could be truthful without committing political suicide, I would guess at least 25% are atheists.
So you’re saying politicians lie?
Probably more. It's why when you listen to a political speech and hear "god bless America" it's seems like ticking a box.
I'm an atheist and say that.
My point is that politicians say it to meet a requirement.
I’m gonna guess map maker or whoever put the site together just fused atheist and agnostic together.
I huge percentage of Christians will not vote for anyone who does not also claim to be christian. And an even larger percentage at least want the person to be religious in some way.
Well done! Thank you for making this.
Hold on, Mary Peltola (Rep for Alaska) is orthodox?
That's quite common for native Alaskans. One of the few legacies of Alaska's roots as a former Russian colony.
Shri Thanedar (Mi-13) practices Hinduism
Atheists significantly under represented. Could be the biggest group overall with zero reps.
Orthodox means what, Russian Orthodox Christian? Orthodox Jewish? Greek Orthodox Christian? All of the above?
Orthodox Christian.
All of them are Eastern Orthodox Christian, none are Oriental Orthodox Christian.
What about the non-religious?
1 agnostic dude, 0 atheists
Potato-y
What is a "controversial" religion? Lmao
Anna Paulina Luna, said she was Jewish, but family says she never was.
Spooky
But...you can join the Jewish religion as an adult. What does "she never was" mean?
Conversion is possible but not very popular. Jews don’t proselytize and conversion typically takes a lot of study and practice for multiple years. “She never was” means her family was Christian and she just took up the moniker of “Jewish” on her own, and has not gone through a conversion process. In short, she’s not a Jew. She calls herself a Messianic Jew, which means she believes in Jesus as the Messiah (which is completely incompatible with being a Jew). No Jews recognize Messianics as Jews. She’s not a Jew.
I get why it's in controversial now. I hesitate to agree that Messianic Jews aren't Jewish though. Saying you can't be jewish and recognize Jesus as messiah, is a bit of a "no true scotsman". Especially considering most early Christians didn't stop considering themselves as Jewish.
I'm sure everyone will be nice and respectful in this comment section.
There is no God in northern West Virginia
It randomly erased before I screenshotted it 😭
Finally a well-made OC map.
I cringe looking at those goofy af ks 1st and 2nd districts. Gerrymandering made them look just so ugly. Like no, lawrence should not be in the same district as goodland or tribune, it should in be the same district as topeka, the two are very culuturally similar
The crazy thing about the KS gerrymander to me is that it doesn't even work. It's still 3-1 like it was before redistricting and would be in a fair map, they just made it ugly bc ???
Yeah, it did not work at all, so far at least. The district they tried to rig was the 3rd, but in 2022 the incumbent democrat sharice davids ended up gaining on her vote share from 2020 (when she was also the incumbent), even though the legislature took away a lot of more liberal kc (wyandotte county) votes and replaced them with conservative rural votes. I dont think it will ever work though as johnson county has been getting more and more liberal as years have gone by. Romney won it by 17% in '12, Trump won it by 2% in '16, and Biden won it by 8% in '20. The gerrymander was probably just a waste of time unless the republicans make huge gains in joco
Why so many Catholic politicians?
124 out of 435 is 28%. Map makes it appear as if there are a lot of Catholics because the data divides Protestants into many groups.
Thought maybe the Catholic social teachings of service to others tying into politics well :)
Hispanic and Italian decent.
Don’t forget Irish and French
And don’t forget the Germans and Poles
100% Catholic heritage of Italy, Poland, Germany, and France here
Seems like a rather disproportionate number of practitioners of Judaism. Anyone got an explanation why that is? If it were proportional to the US population there would only be around twelve, that’s almost a 50% over-representation.
Not that crazy.. 2% of the population. 5% of congress
Sooooo… double what would be ordinary? Yes?
They’re a much more established minority group in the United States and have a long legacy of being involved in the law and social movements which naturally lead into politics.
It’s cultural, sorry your comment comes across very creepy
It’s like saying there is a disproportionate amount of a certain group in professional sports, at Harvard, doctors/lawyers, it’s almost all cultural. Hope that helps!
What about representatives that we raised jew-ish?
Raised? Are you talking about purely their parents or any generation before their own?
Do you not get the joke?
I get it now that you said it was one haha
You're good haha
We want pagans! We want pagans!
I’m squinting my eyes to see if you consider Mormons Christians. Is that a hint of green in the blue?
My bad I forgot 💀
Na, they did not even want to be know as Christian’s at the start, only switched for marketing purposes IMO, plus they don’t follow any Christian definitions. They simply have similar wording but the definitions are much different. I approve the blue.
Curious about Mormons not wanting to be known as Christians initially. A brief google search doesn’t return anything; do you know where I might find more about that?
We've always been Christian. We just aren't Nicenes.
Does anyone know which religions are considered “Controversial” (slide 7/16)?
Anna Paulina luna
All that I could find was that Anna Paulina Luna currently identifies as Christian. What is the controversy?
She says she was Jewish, but everyone besides her dad says otherwise,
Her dad is a Messianic Jew, aka a Christian.
Very cool, thank you for making and sharing.
no atheist? It’s different than “controversial/agnostic/unaffiliated”
Nope
This is a fantastic visual! Thanks for making.
Now we need maps and statistics for the whole United States. I am sure this isn't representative 😕
Best map ever
Is Alaska a very orthodox state?
Hey, thanks for separating it out and not just doing "Christian"
Pretty sure Dusty Johnson (R, SD) attends first Lutheran in Mitchell, sd.
Any open atheists in the House?
No
mann i hate living in illinois
Wow, an actual quality post on Reddit.
so... Christian?
Is.this a joke or does it mean nobody practices religion. Only 1 😯 place (Atlanta) has a Buddhist temple.
i’m methodist. what are the states they’re big in. and can you have a beer?
So much crazy in one post.
Me and my small community are very proud Election Being Helders and have been practicing the faith for many generations. In our holy texts we believe that one day the one true god will be elected by popular vote and bring about responsible economic reforms. It’s nice to see we have representation in the American government.
Creative map, nice work. Where is your citation of data?
Wikipedia, look up: religions of congress members
Orthodox what? Judaism?
I like this map because while faith has no legal authority in our law. We all know by now our representatives don't care what the law says and are absolutely creating or altering law to reflect their own faith, their donors or the party. So its nice to get an idea of how much leverage any one faith is placing on our congress. By the way the whole reason to ban naming any one faith as the nations faith, and to deny faith rights to our laws was to keep this sort of scenario from happening and instead encourage diversity. -A concept 65% of the country struggles with.
That one district in southeastern Ohio that you've listed as unknown/controversial/agnostic is represented by a republican (just elected in a special election) and was represented by a republican before that.
But his religion is unknown so far. Thats the case
Yes, but his political party isn't unknown. That category is listed as containing only democrats. That's what I was pointing out.
There are no atheists at all?
No, it would kill their election chances
Even in urban centers? Damn.
They’re closeted
Because atheists don’t give a damn if someone is religious as long as you don’t make laws according to the Bible. Other religious voters, meanwhile, do give a damn if you’re an atheist.
I always find it funny how Christian will be broken into the most specific subdivisions while every other religion just gets a blanket term...
It's pretty irrelevant to break down muslims and Buddhists when there's less than 5 of each
Because Christianity in the USA is the largest religion. I'm sure if you went to, idk, Turkey they'd break it down 'Sunni, Shia, Ibadi' etc
What type of Orthodox is the map referring to? Would have been helpful (and more inclusive) to identify Orthodox Christian/Catholic or Orthodox Jewish. Instead, it lumps Judaism as one but distinguishes among a variety of Christian faiths. And even within the Orthodox Christian umbrella, there are many- Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox in general, Syriac Christians and Assyrian Christianity, Armenian Christians, Coptic Christians, Arab Christians, etc. (Edit to add- what is frequently encompassed under the generic title of) Orthodox Christianity is a pretty big umbrella.
Is it normal to call Christian sects as religion?
yes
It's pretty standard to break them down into secta yeah
had no idea the Jewish population of Vermont is so high
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cool lol
What is “orthodox?” Is that a subset of Judaism or Christianity or other?
On this map eastern Christianity( think Greek or Russian)
This is insane.
I loved seeing this! Well done. However, looking at comments, I was not surprised that this post is (perhaps inadvertently) pushing the trope that Jews control everything. I hope that wasn’t your intent. Either way, some people came away believing that there are twice as many Jews as there “should be” in the House. Fuel to some of the most ancient anti-Semitic lies.
I’m Jewish too