is that there are less Protestants but more people who belong to other extremist religions. I am not going to be PC and pretend I see a growth in other religious groups as being good. I do not applaud when a Mormon, Jehovah, or Islamic house of worship opens to replace a Protestant Church. They are all preaching the same ignorance but with different costumes.

NONE of this matters. This goes especially to extremist type religions our Xian Crusaders being one of them.

I'm not concerned at all.

Perhaps I'm wrong but I don't think JW care about politics, I don't even think they vote.

One reason corporations and plutocrats have grown in power is because the public has abdicated its power. Another example is the growing number of black ministers telling their congregation to not vote for President Obama because he supports gay marriage. I suspect they are also being paid off but that is just my suspicion. Suppressing the urban vote can have a huge impact.

I just feel organized religion has always been one of the great evils in the world.

convert as many as they can so only a handful will go on to their heavenly rewards....

Not going to change them, no harm, no foul unless the wake you up after a nightshift tour, ringing the doorbell at 9 a.m.

The Xian Right is about as anti-Christ as you can get. Lawrence O'Donnell did a fab segment on the Bible Thumpers last night, you should check it out.

And not all organized religion is bad, it's the extremists who try to assert their bogus bs on every citizen in this country that need to be sentenced to the little Anthony's cornfield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:It%27s_A_Good_Life.JPG.

have blood on their hands. The Jehovahs like the benefits of our society but refuse to participate. That is just as destructive. There is nothing positive about organized religion and human beings will be trapped by ignorance until they realize this.

(at least in theory)

You need to take your little problem with non-Protestant religions and stick it someplace. Same with any problem you might have with Hindus, Jains, Wiccans, Catholics, Buddhists, Shintos, etc etc etc.

Suck it up and deal with it. We have freedom of worship in the US.

As long as they ALL keep their dogmas out of my government I don't care HOW many houses of worship they have. That should be the ONLY consideration.

I was born to the Catholic religion. No longer attend church. Still have some faith, but I would call myself unaffiliated and I vote straight Democratic ticket. I'd like to think the unaffiliated group will continue to rise, and I hope that it's a mix of atheists, agnostics and people like me who still have faith but don't consider ourselves part of organized religion anymore.

As this notes, that bodes well for the Democratic party.