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This is right, and that's why I favor Dems continuing to incorporate religious themes to messaging. Christians, of course, do not have to be jerks. Raphael Warnock is not a jerk. Of all the things you can say about him, being a jackass is simply not one of them. Barack Obama touched everyone when he sang, impromptu, at the Charleston funeral.I think when it comes to things like the treatment of trans people. There are a lot of people that rely/relied on religion for community more than belief. As that community became less necessary people drifted away. And as that community became toxic they ran away. The research that the He Gets Us people did showed that the biggest problem their churches face is that many people consider Christians to be jerks (of course their solution is to argue against that rather than stop being jerks). There is a large group that isn't being swayed by anything Hitchens wrote or some change in belief. They just don't want to join the club.
To all the people who think Christians are jerks: those are just the loud vocal ones who have a long reach because they have a lot of money because stupid people send it to them. Go to a UCC and see how many jerks are there.