Which U.S. president of the last few decades attended church the most?

@SunshineGirl I never ever disliked him. I agreed with him on some stuff and not on other stuff, but I respected him and always felt like he wanted the best for the country even if I didn’t always care for his approach to some.

@SunshineGirl And Hillary Clinton held a devotional with her pastor every morning during her campaign. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg are also very devout Christians. They just don't advertise it the way Republicans do.

@LeopoldBloom Yeah. It’s very personal thing to many of them and to actively campaign on it, I think they feel sort of soils it. Plus, I don’t think they want to get into the my faith is better than your faith stuff. Hard to keep a big tent with people of various beliefs while doing that. Unless you just stay vague and go kind of cult like with it.

@LeopoldBloom in fact, both Bush Jr and Sr didn’t really push their religion quite the way many Republicans do now either. It’s sort of a new thing to do and feels a bit cultish to me.

@JustGoneNow But the cult aspect was always there. In the film Jesus Camp, there's a scene where kids pray to a cardboard cutout of George W. Bush. It's ironic that today Bush is reviled for his less than full-throated support for Trump.

I think the damage Trump did and is doing to Christianity in America won't be apparent until after he's gone. But the plummeting church attendance and the growth of young people identifying as "no religion" is definitely being accelerated by him and how church leaders support him.

@LeopoldBloom I don’t disagree, with either point actually. It just seems to be way more in your face now, though.

@LeopoldBloom Yes, their religion was more personal and arguably more authentic as they did not seem to be buying votes by consciously allying with a faction.

@JustGoneNow I loathed him at the time because his policies seemed to me to be directly responsible for my parents being continuously deployed to foreign war zones. But context and the passage of time make him appear quite a reasonable leader.

@SunshineGirl I can see that. For me, I didn’t hate everything he did nor did I love everything he did either. I’m kind of a mixed bag on politics. I’m far too conservative for some of my Democrat friends at least on certain issues and also far too liberal for my Republican ones, at least on other issues. I’m kind of a truist when it comes to freedom and sort of don’t like anyone telling me what to do on the left or right. I tend to always default to personal freedom on everything, except when it presents an imminent danger to the general public like shouting Fire in a crowded theater. As my rights end where yours begin. Often I actually join the left and right together in shared hatred of my ideas but I call it progress. lol

@SunshineGirl Trump showed us that politics is a profession and politicians have to learn their craft. There are certain norms that everyone took for granted because it never occurred to anyone to break them. Trump ended all that and now the Republican party is basically open to whatever they can get away with.