No.
I don’t think that’s the problem. I think the problem is that the Northeastern power base that elected Kennedy has eroded. Successful candidates these days are more likely to come from the Midwest or the South.
Of course, any time people start using the word “true” in that way it indicates that they are working with a subjective and basically useless definition of the word being modified
I’m not sure what alternate universe you live in! But we are obviously speaking through a wormhole, since in my universe Americans are renowned throughout the Western world for their obsession with religion, and are regarded by some sociologists of religion (see Stark and Finke, The Churching of America) as having become on the whole more religious over the course of their history rather than less!
Of course. Americans are just much more religious than any western nation. If its the majority it simply doesnt show. Instead what appears are too much crime, materialism and secularism.
Unfortunately, I am very far from convinced that being religious necessarily results in less crime or (in the practical sense) materialism. It may result in people salving their consciences by religious activity while living as they like the rest of the time. Being religious is not, in and of itself, the answer. Pursuing holiness is the answer–that logically includes “being religious” (though it is possible to pursue holiness without realizing this).
John Kerry was the presidential nominee of one of the two governing parties in this country and he was Catholic. He lost because he was a lousy candidate and would have made an even worse president, not because he was Catholic.
Well, there was also him being a fake Catholic. You like posers? Me neither.
That is true. There is no guarantee that one leads to the other. Only that one would ‘likely’ lead to the other. It also depends on the type of crime. There is also a good chance that a sinful person makes a show of religiousness.
And furthermore that a person with serious issues may well feel a greater need for God than someone else. This is often overlooked by people who talk about hypocrisy.