[TimorousBestie]

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religion-par...

It’s a lot harder to find decent evidence on the prevalence of religious belief in Iran, obviously, but I’d be willing to believe anything in the 70-90% range based on the commentary below. (Obviously this source is biased, but they at least cite their references adequately.) Large confidence intervals evince a lack of confidence.

https://muslimskeptic.com/2025/01/29/iranians-atheists/#Stat...

So yeah, it seems reasonable to claim that white Republicans are roughly as religious as Iranians overall.

This probably underestimates religious belief of those aligned with the government, however, since we can’t segment them out by political affiliation and the opposition is likely more secular in proportion.

[rayiner]

The republican party in the 2010s had a similar percentage of non-religious people as the democratic party in the 1990s: https://religionunplugged.com/news/2023/11/6/the-religious-c.... The percentage of republicans who never go to church in 2022 is similar to where democrats were at in 2008. With both parties seeing a shift towards non-religiosity during the Trump era.

Obviously Democrats in the 1990s weren’t theocrats. Maybe your point is that it’s not about religious attendance per se that makes for a theocracy, but the content of the religious beliefs?

[TimorousBestie]

My point was determining if the claim in the comment I responded to was reasonable or not based on the limited, weak evidence I could find on my lunch break.