Appreciate you putting this together, but not really surprising.
Let alone the right will just use this to say “see, the left ARE the godless heathens we’ve been painting them out to be for the last several years!”
Yikes. It really is a cult.
It’s always the most corrupt that use their God to justify their acts.
Evil bastards and their imaginary friend.
Like the Offspring said, you gotta keep ’em separated.
I would be interested in seeing a version of this that went back further to before the start of GWB’s term, although I don’t know when they started producing e-newsletters. My perception is that GWB was a more overtly-religious president and that after his popularity collapsed the GOP temporarily dialed it back on the religious aspects, hence why this graph starts low and increases over time.
Why did you pick groups of 7 months and change for the X Axis?
Also, I’d find a better way to represent the date; It looks bad.
Is this reflecting the sheer number of emails Republicans spit out? Can you normalize it on the total emails per time period?
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State”
Thomas Jefferson 1803
Quite interesting. I think occurrences of “God” / total words, would be a bit more informative to control for the changing number of congressmen from each party, different email frequency leading up to elections, and different email lengths between parties.
Edit: Also if the data is split into 6 month or 1 year intervals, a line graph would be easier to read.
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them”. Barry Goldwater
I hope God is real, because then these immoral faux-religious pretenders lacking even the vaguest sense of the empathy inherent in the alleged teachings of Jesus are in for quite the eternity.
How often is it used in vain, god damn!
Matthew 6:5
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. “
**𝒞ℴ𝓃𝓈𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓊ℴ𝓊𝓈 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎**™
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What’s the point of being pious if no one is watching?
I misread the name of that site.
This really ought to be some sort of percentage analysis. I suspect e-newsletters are much more common now than they were in 2010.
Considering that many conservatives convince themselves into agreeing Donald Trump is the best choice on the ballot, maybe the Dems should do some pandering “God Bless Americas” to sway what’s left of the political middle. It can’t hurt.
![[OC] Mentions of "god" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ulybpdj1hvvf1-1902x1024.png)
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Appreciate you putting this together, but not really surprising.
Let alone the right will just use this to say “see, the left ARE the godless heathens we’ve been painting them out to be for the last several years!”
Yikes. It really is a cult.
It’s always the most corrupt that use their God to justify their acts.
Evil bastards and their imaginary friend.
Like the Offspring said, you gotta keep ’em separated.
I would be interested in seeing a version of this that went back further to before the start of GWB’s term, although I don’t know when they started producing e-newsletters. My perception is that GWB was a more overtly-religious president and that after his popularity collapsed the GOP temporarily dialed it back on the religious aspects, hence why this graph starts low and increases over time.
Why did you pick groups of 7 months and change for the X Axis?
Also, I’d find a better way to represent the date; It looks bad.
Is this reflecting the sheer number of emails Republicans spit out? Can you normalize it on the total emails per time period?
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State”
Thomas Jefferson 1803
Quite interesting. I think occurrences of “God” / total words, would be a bit more informative to control for the changing number of congressmen from each party, different email frequency leading up to elections, and different email lengths between parties.
Edit: Also if the data is split into 6 month or 1 year intervals, a line graph would be easier to read.
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them”. Barry Goldwater
I hope God is real, because then these immoral faux-religious pretenders lacking even the vaguest sense of the empathy inherent in the alleged teachings of Jesus are in for quite the eternity.
How often is it used in vain, god damn!
Matthew 6:5
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. “
**𝒞ℴ𝓃𝓈𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓊ℴ𝓊𝓈 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎**™
—–
What’s the point of being pious if no one is watching?
I misread the name of that site.
This really ought to be some sort of percentage analysis. I suspect e-newsletters are much more common now than they were in 2010.
Considering that many conservatives convince themselves into agreeing Donald Trump is the best choice on the ballot, maybe the Dems should do some pandering “God Bless Americas” to sway what’s left of the political middle. It can’t hurt.
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