The new United States Congress is ready to start their term of office, and once again they are a very religious group. They are a testament to the fact that if you want to get elected in this country, it pays to profess a belief in a god -- preferably the christian god.
The vast majority of the new congressmen are protestants -- about 54.7% of them (including Baptists at 12.4%, Methodists at 10.7%, Presbyterians at 8.1% and Episcopalians at 7.1%). The next largest groups are Catholics at 30.1%, Jews at 8.4% and Mormons at 2.6%.
The new Congress also includes 2 Muslims, 2 Buddhists and 1 Quaker.
Remarkably, there is one district in America that doesn't require a belief in god of its representative. The California city of Fremont elected Democrat Pete Stark. Rep. Stark is the only member of Congress who has publicly declared that he does not believe in a supreme being.
So they start each day with 'Let us prey'.
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