(July 11, 2012 at 11:54 pm)Polaris Wrote: They're plenty of atheists in Congress...they just won't admit it and there's absolutely no justified reason for them to do so either.
On this side of the pond (UK) politicians rarely talk about religion. A handful are openly religious (i.e. Anne Widdecombe. Nadine Dorris) but most "don't do God". Talking about your personal religion - if you have one - would very quickly turn to a negative for a politician, making you seem divisive and exclusive, and possibly a bit swivelly eyed.
It always amazes me that politicians the world over are almost always derided as self seeking and dishonest - in the spectrum of public regard they come slightly above peadophiles and below lawyers and bankers - yet it never seems to occur to anyone that a US politician could feign religious faith FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE.
Regards
Grimesy
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
