Next, we examined the effects of religious word priming condition on politically conservative participants’ opinions of President Obama. To test this, we conducted a 4 (religious word prime) x 3 (political identity) ANCOVA that examined the effects of religious word priming and participant political identity on opinions of President Obama while controlling for participant self-reported religiosity. There was no significant main effect of the religious prime manipulation on opinions of President Obama, F(3, 322) = 0.97, p = .409, partial eta-squared = .009. Opinions of President Obama were similar for participants who were primed with abstract religious words (n = 84, M = 4.07, SD = 1.20), religious agents (n = 83, M = 4.16, SD = 1.22), concrete religious words (n = 85, M = 4.08, SD = 1.35), and non-religious words (n = 83, M = 4.24, SD = 1.06). The main effect of participant political identity remained significant while controlling for participant religiosity, F(2, 322) = 43.98, p < .001, partial eta-squared = .215. There was no significant interaction between the religious prime manipulation and participant political identity, F(6, 322) = 0.49, p = .815, partial eta-squared = .009. Although the differences were not significant, conservative participants primed with abstract religious words (n = 11, M = 2.88, SD = 0.84) tended to rate President Obama more negatively than did those primed with religious agents (n = 14, M = 3.04, SD = 1.25), concrete religious words (n = 20, M = 3.02, SD = 1.26), and non-religious words (n = 14, M = 3.55, SD = 1.19). Therefore, we did not find differential effects of religious word type on attitudes toward President Obama. These findings are inconsistent with those from those of previous studies that demonstrated that priming with religious concepts increases negative attitudes towards out-groups [22–25]. Furthermore, similar to the findings of Ramsay and colleagues , our findings are also inconsistent with those that showed differential effects of priming with religion and God concepts .