Only one Atheist in US Congress
An interesting research report from Pew on the religious composition of the US Congress. While 20% of the US don’t have a religious affiliation (atheist or agnostic) only one out of 535 Congresspersons and Senators is an atheist.
The most popular congressional religions (with US population percentage in brackets) are:
- Christian 92% (73%)
- Protestant 57% (49%)
- Catholic 31% (22%)
- Baptist 15% (17%)
- Methodist 8% (6%)
- Anglican 8% (2%)
- Presbyterian 7% (3%)
- Jewish 5% (2%)
- Lutheran 5% (5%)
- Mormon 3% (2%)
- Buddhist 0.4% (1%)
- Muslim 0.4% (1%)
- Unaffiliated 0.2% (20%)
The only member of congress who says she is not religious is Kyrsten Sinema, from Arizona. It is near impossible to get elected to any office on the US, if you say you do not believe in God.