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Originally Posted by Gayle
Actually, on a serious note - slightly! In the UK most prospective MPs try to play down their religion, it's almost like anyone who claims to be a specific religion or devout in any way is considered a crank and not necessarily likely to be a good MP yet in America it seems to be one of the deciding factors and a really big thing.
It's almost as though only 'Christians' vote in America.
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It does seem that way. But it is only in some parts of the US that fundamentalist chrisitianity is a factor ... like in the Bible Belt. But in many cases, it is not a "deciding factor", but a fundamental hypocrisy, a sort of born-again pc-ism. In practice, many American politicians who have run on a platform of "christian values" are the ones who get caught with their pants down, quite often literally. What is really troubling is that christianity in extreme forms seems to have become inseparable from "manifest destiny", and, indeed, democracy.