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!”
simplepimple2025 on
Yikes. It really is a cult.
Any-Web-3347 on
It’s always the most corrupt that use their God to justify their acts.
314kabinet on
Evil bastards and their imaginary friend.
TheMurmuring on
Like the Offspring said, you gotta keep ’em separated.
Yglorba on
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.
JBizzle158 on
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.
King_of_the_Rabbits on
Is this reflecting the sheer number of emails Republicans spit out? Can you normalize it on the total emails per time period?
Plinystonic on
“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
Unlucky-Key on
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.
craigathan on
“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
Boatster_McBoat on
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.
![[OC] Mentions of "god" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ulybpdj1hvvf1-1536x856.png "[OC] Mentions of “god” in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party")
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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.