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by craftyguy 2807 days ago
~4 people over the past 200+ years is not a meaningful demonstration of any tolerance towards non-religious folks holding public office.
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> ~4 people over the past 200+ years

No, that's just over the last 20 (no plus) years; each of the identified people has been elected to Congress or a Governor's office in 1998 or later.

It's true that the preceding 200+ years of US history had a substantially lower (but nonzero, even in comparable offices) average frequency of publicly non-religious office holders, but that's about how the US was not how it is.