[NickBusey]

> Less than 4% of Congress members say they're unaffiliated with religion or don't know. PRRI's survey says nearly 27% of the general public is unaffiliated.

THIS is the biggest disparity in the article. Not that X or Y faith or under or over represented, but that almost a full 1/3 of the country is non-religious, yet less than 5% of Congress matches that view point.

We need more openly atheist leaders.

[ThorsBane]

We need leaders who lead. If they are openly anything, that should be incidental. I don't care if they are or are not openly atheist. It is irrelevant to have people who are openly atheists just for the sake of them being openly atheists or for the sake of saying that there is some proportion that is directly uniform or 1:1 with what you expect more broadly.

[namdnay]

What percentage of Americans have cheated on their partners? What percentage of elected officials openly declare they have cheated on their partners?

Openly being Atheist isn't going to bring you many extra votes, but it sure as hell is going to lose you some. There isn't a big atheist bloc who will refuse to vote for a milquetoast christian

[the_third_wave]

Atheist as in "does not believe in any supernatural creator", fine. Atheist as in "has replaced $god with some gnostic belief system", no thanks. I do not believe in any gods but I actively disbelief in living human beings who claim to have secret knowledge of how the world came to be as it is and what needs to be done to rid ourselves of the yoke of the past so we can become like gods [1]. At least ancient @gods [2] do not have incentives to twist the narrative towards their own personal gain like living and breathing 'leaders' do.

[1] https://cynicaltheories.com/ contains a good overview of many of these "theorists" and "theories"

[1] Perl is the language of the @gods

[juujian]

Adult general public.