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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

You're insane if you think that non-religious people don't treat their politics like a religion. It's more or less exactly like that for a significant chunk of people. It serves the same psycho-social purpose.

http://goddoesnt.blogspot.ca/2016/01...egressive.html

Okay I read a bunch of that article and never got to the part that supported what you're saying. I'm sure it's there as I know you're thorough, but maybe give me a paragraph number or quote the relevant passage.

Definitely some people are going to vote for the same party no matter what regardless of the issues, but I think religious people are more inclined to do so based on what I've seen around me. I don't have an article to support that, so straight up, I'm just speculating. Areligious people are definitely more free to think and change their minds when confronted with new evidence, though (compared to religious people).

It would be cool to know of the people that voted NDP in 2015 and another party in previous elections, how many were religious and how many were not. NDP won in 2015 and had less than 10% of votes in the prior election, so a lot of people voted against any prior party allegiance. I thing non-religious people would have made up a higher percentage of converted voters over religious people, who I think would have been more likely to vote conservative. I have no idea where I'd even look if I wanted to back that up with evidence.