Will America vote for "secular but spiritual"?

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Monday February 08, 2016 · 10:01 AM PST

2016/02/08 · 10:01

I don’t think most Americans will have a problem voting for a Jewish person — and the ones that do have a problem wouldn’t vote for a Democrat anyway. However, as much as I love me some Bernie, he is a self-proclaimed secular Jew, and it is the “secular” part that has me concerned.

As an atheist, I don’t give a crap if a person ends their speech with “God Bless the United States of America!” (and respect that Bernie ends simply with a “Thank you!”), but it means quite a bit to so many of our fellow Americans - left and right.

Now no one has polled for “secular but spiritual”, but for my entire 50 years on the planet, presidential candidates have “be seen going to church” as integral to the campaign strategy.

Also problematic, being a secular Jew is open to interpretation — are you skeptical of religion, simply not Orthodox, or merely a strong supporter of the separation of church and state? Most secular Jews I know are in category one or two — but mostly one (yes — selection bias could be a factor — birds of a feather).

Since I don’t write blog posts — in fact this is my first despite being a long time DKos member — I don’t expect anyone to actually read this, but thought I’d through it out to the DKos universe.

America is a shockingly religious country except among Bernie’s strongest demographic — under 30. Convince me I’m wrong and that it won’t matter in the general election. And is there even a strategy to deal with this?

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