What can be done?

[Dystopia]

(b) Politics. There is a heavy does of religious influence in politics. It is still here in England, I don't think a prime-minister would dare to declare themselves an atheist. We are a pretty weak-christian country I feel, with people "sort of believing" and would label themselves christian. But I don't feel there is much strong belief or that they are really acting as if any of it were true. I'm sure there's some bible bashers (I have met some) but they are not too commonplace, at least where I have lived. But in the US especially, religion is clearly playing a massive part and I've heard all kind of scary things like people elected to office resorting to prayer rather than addressing problems. If people in charge are basing their decisions on religious belief, even partly, they are going to be causing harm.

Luckily this is becoming less of an issue in the UK. Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg are both atheists, and it has done nothing to harm their popularity (Clegg does that well enough by being a massive hypocrite). The Tories are normally fairly religious, but hopefully they won't be in power after next year (a lot of new voters, including myself, got fucked over by their tuition fees increase, and UKIP are stealing votes from them).

In portugal, two of our presidents described themselves as secularists and one prime minister called himself an agnostic, even though everyone knows he's an atheist - And the majority of the population is supposedly catholic. IMO religion has become boring in Europe and people follow traditions and describe themselves as Christians just because it's the norm, but most don't pray or read the bible daily.