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

To refresh your memory, they are:

Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Joe Biden

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Joe Biden. Biden has so far attended church over 100 times since his inauguration. Next is Jimmy Carter who attended church over 70 times during his four years in office. Trump went to church 14 times during his presidency.

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walabby · M

Yeah, but Joe is Catholic, and Catholic churches don't count! XD

JustGoneNow

@walabby I’m Catholic. 😞

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@walabby there’s only one church my friend and it’s located in Rome .

LeopoldBloom · M

@AthrillatheHunt I thought it was in Salt Lake City, Utah.

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom lol

walabby · M

@JustGoneNow I was being facetious. The Catholic church basically started Christianity as we know it today.
However, there are some Christian religions that don't think that Catholicism is even Christian!

JustGoneNow

@walabby Naw, I get it. And some Christian faiths seems decidedly unChristian any more.

https://similarworlds.com/poetry/writing/poet/4611028-you-follow-your-own-Jesus-you-say-that-youre-a-Christian-but

LeopoldBloom · M

@walabby If the Catholic Church hadn't preserved Christianity through the Dark Ages, those same Catholic-hating "Christians" would either be Muslims today or would still be following whatever pagan religion their ancestors followed.

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@LeopoldBloom it was relocated to salt lake from like Ohio or Indiana I believe .

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@walabby correct. The Coptic’s were the original Christian’s but after hundreds of years of killing Christian’s Rome adopted it in the 3rd century and the rest is history .

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom true. my Mum would have followed the Celtic faith in Ireland and my Da would have been following Oden with the Norse faith.

LeopoldBloom · M

@JustGoneNow Without Paul, Christianity if it existed today would be an obscure Jewish sect, practiced only in enclaves in Greece, Italy, the Middle East, and Ethiopia.

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom I mean I love my faith, but I wouldn’t have known any better, so…

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom I just wish Pauline Christianity had looked more like the gnostic one. I’d honestly feel better if the letters from Paul just weren’t in the main Bible like you sugggested.

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom if we want to boil it down. I’m Catholic because that’s what I was raised with. But I BELIEVE in Jesus. I can read between the lines. And that’s why I can’t just follow churches blindly. Even my own. That pretty much sums me up.

walabby · M

@LeopoldBloom Christianity is a misnomer. It should be called Paulianity... XD

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@LeopoldBloom probably true. I’d add Armenia and Palestine to that list .

LeopoldBloom · M

@walabby There is a sect called "Jesusism" that focuses only on Jesus and ignores Paul.

LeopoldBloom · M

@AthrillatheHunt Definitely. Possibly Goa or other places in southern India too.

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom woah. that’s my shit right there. you know the Jeffersonian Bible was a Bible that Thomas Jefferson had commissioned that only has the stuff in it that appears after “and Jesus said.” That’s very similar.

LeopoldBloom · M

@JustGoneNow Jefferson was a Deist who admired Jesus as a moral teacher but had no interest in the supernatural. The people who constantly bleat about how the US is a "Christian nation" seem to forget the religious views of the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

JustGoneNow

@LeopoldBloom the things is how consistent Jesus’s message is. You take all the supernatural stuff out and Jesus’s message doesn’t change at all.