Ryan Burge: The 2024 Election & Religion Post-Mortem

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Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Well nerds, buckle up for this one. My buddy Ryan Burge has returned with his latest graphs about religion and the 2024 election, and let me tell you - it was zesty. We started talking about minor league baseball, chicken raising, and somehow ended up dissecting why 83% of white evangelicals voted for Trump (spoiler: it's not shocking). Ryan breaks down the real story of the 2024 election - how non-white evangelicals are now 50/50, why mainline Protestants aren't actually that liberal, and the fascinating shifts happening in the Catholic vote. We dive into the data that shows education and church attendance create some pretty stark political divides, and why Democrats might want to rethink their approach to people of faith. But this is us, so we also talked about LeBron's hair transplants, whether 100 men could take down a silverback gorilla, why online gambling is destroying America, and Ryan's ongoing campaign to get academics to eat at steakhouses instead of Sweet Green. Plus, Ryan explains why Mark Driscoll might be the godfather of the manosphere, and we debate whether Joe Scarborough and Mika have the worst work schedule in television. Oh, and we somehow got into a deep discussion about Mayor Pete's beard and why Democrats need to learn how to talk about their faith without sounding like they're apologizing for it. Because apparently that's where our brains go. Want the full conversation? This is just a taste of what we covered in over two hours of completely unhinged discussion. If you're a member of either Graphs About Religion (Ryan's substack) or Process This (mine), you get access to the entire unedited conversation, plus invitations to join us live for future streams where things get even more zesty - and yes, I'm using that word in the Whitehead sense, not the Gen Z sense. Previous Visits from Ryan Burge Distrust & Denominations Trust, Religion, & a Functioning Democracy What it’s like to close a church The Future of Christian Education & Ministry in Charts The Sky is Falling & the Charts are Popping! Graphs about Religion & Politics w/ Spicy Banter a Year in Religion (in Graphs) Evangelical Jews, Educated Church-Goers, & other bits of dizzying data 5 Religion Graphs w/ a side of Hot Takes Myths about Religion & Politics Ryan P. Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Author of numerous journal articles, he is the co-founder of and a frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a forum for scholars of religion and politics to make their work accessible to a general audience. Burge is a pastor in the American Baptist Church. Upcoming Online Class:⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rediscovering the Spirit: Hand-Raisers, Han, & the Holy Ghost⁠⁠⁠⁠ is an open-online course exploring the dynamic, often overlooked third person of the Trinity. Based on Grace Ji-Sun Kim's groundbreaking work on the Holy Spirit this class takes participants on a journey through biblical foundations, historical developments, diverse cultural perspectives, and practical applications of Spirit theology. ⁠⁠⁠⁠As always, this class is donation-based, including 0. To get class info and sign up, head over here. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ _____________________ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hang with 40+ Scholars & Podcasts and 600 people at Theology Beer Camp 2025 (Oct. 16-18) in St. Paul, MN. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Homebrewed Christianity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ production. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Homebrewed Christianity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theology Nerd Throwdown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rise of Bonhoeffer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 80,000 other people by joining our⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Substack - Process This!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get instant access to over 45 classes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.TheologyClass.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the podcast, drop a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, send ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠feedback/questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or become a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠member of the HBC Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup so hello everyone this trip I'm here with my friend Ryan and uh So hello, everyone. This is trip.
0:39.0	I'm here with my friend Ryan, and we're going to do some, we're going to do some hot takes about some graphs about religion.
0:45.7	Speaking of graphs about religion, great name for a substack, and it's true, it's Ryan's substack.
0:51.7	If you, if you're a member of that substack or the process is substack mine,
0:56.1	then you were invited to join us doing this live. You get the full recording digitally,
1:02.0	which I have to say, wide variety of topics already covered in just the preface of the member state.
1:10.0	Marijuana, gambling, gambling football players minor league baseball
1:15.3	what else oh mark driscoll uh you know squatting squad and uh john fetterman oh chickens and john fetterman
1:25.7	and why you shouldn't be on social media.
1:30.3	Yeah, all that, all that, all that covered.
1:34.0	So you want to set up the graphs that you picked for the day.
1:35.6	Oh, do I now?
1:37.5	Well, I mean, you made them.
1:38.7	I did make them.
1:43.3	The first one, I just wanted to like show you what happened in 2024 with all the religious groups.
1:44.0	Yeah, yeah. Oh, the theme. What our theme is, 24 election and religion post-mortem, which is like, I'm just going to tell you what happened with religion and the vote in 2024. And for, by the way, if you're not a subscriber to my substack, I'm going to do like 12 posts on my substack where like I talk about a bunch of different groups and how they voted in 2024 going in like I've already written on evangelicals mainline Catholics, Jews, Latter-day Saints, atheists agnostics, a bunch of stuff. So like there's going to be more that's coming out. Are you going to do a nun post? I am. I just wrote a post of atheist agnostics.
2:18.1	Actually, I made the graphs for it. I've written the word yet, but like they actually didn't
2:22.2	turn out that much. Like they, um, their donation rate dropped from 50% in 2020 to 35% in
2:28.9	2024. They were not jacked up about giving money to Kamala Harris in 2024. And they were for Joe Biden in
2:35.4	2020, which is weird because Biden's Catholic. I don't know. You know what I mean? That just struck me as odd. I think they also probably weren't excited about giving the Donald Trump either. Well, listen, atheists do not love them from Donald Trump. They also vote, but the thing is they He is the future Pope.
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