I literally could NOT have used are more appropriate example given how interwined religion and the GOP are. I mean, it's not a criticism of religion, believe you me, if I wanted to go there I could, but that's rather irrelevant to the argument I was trying to make.
It's simply that human beings all follow a belief system that carries over to everything in their life, and there's no bigger belief system in Conservatism than belieivng in God. Therefore, the faith they have in believing in what God tells them, is no different to having faith that what Trump tells them is the truth. If that's who they believe in as a representation of themselves, how could they possibly believe anything but that?
And if you knew what you were talking about, Democrats are becoming far less religious than they're counterparts, and the gap is increasing year-by-year.