Voting for a public leader, who does not believe in God?

You are absolutly correct I never thought of it in that way. I have always seen our public leaders being very religious, but why not just give them merrit on what they stand for and what they can do for our county

Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked the response. Although my religion is personal to me I don't really care what others believe in. I'm more interested in the person. I look at their words and actions for how I interact with them. The same goes for our politians. I don't look to see what their religion is but how they behave.

Some people will disagree with you regarding if there is a god or not

I can see your point, but I also wonder about a president like the one currently in office who claims that God talks directly to him and through him, thereby giving His holy stamp of approval on anything Bush dreams up. Unfortunately there are enough people in the United States who believe this is true that will happily give up their own rights and let the rights of others be trampled because Bush and supposedly God say so.

I am so glad you spoke up to tell us all what happened in Australia with three atheist prime misters. Do you think it was the lack of religion that caused the country to go down the tube? I want someone who will do a good job for our county and not mess it up like our present guy.

I wonder if I go and check these prime ministers out, will they actually be atheists? Christians on myLot are so fast and loose with the truth. And a quick bit of research proves that idea again. 1991-1996 Keating: Catholic 1983-1991 Hawke: Christian 1975-1983 Fraser: Deist All three men serve on domestic religious councils. Fraser serves on an international council. It's a bit funny he thinks of the US as a godless country, when it is the most conservative Christian nation in the world. The US is, of course, not ready for an agnostic/atheist leader at this point. They have yet to even elect a Jew, black or woman to the post. There was great consternation of Kennedy simply because he was a Catholic (this is a reflection of the modern Christian control, America's early leaders were, at best, deists). Over the last 50 years the Christian right of the US has tried to put their stamp on everything from money (in god we trust) to control of the educational system (evolution debate, only Turkey among the western nations has a lower acceptance level). This is to be expected though, the US passed from its original framers concepts over a century and a half ago.

I agree church and state are not seperate but I do not think we will ever have an elected official that is not religious. I think the Catholic church will do something about that. I do believe our leaders should not let the church officials sway their thinking in any way, but I fear that is not true.

I never said there weren't. I don't think any of the others had little chats with God.

You may be right

You make a good point regarding gay marriage. I agree gay's should have the same rights to marriage than my husband and I do to merry, and no policitian should stop that.

"The last days"? Seriously, what are you smoking? It's people like you who base the prosperity of a country on rleigion, that make me sick.

You are absolutly right.

I agreed at first with you but after reading some of the other remarks I am not sure now. Some of the responses make a lot of sence.

Not afraid to put there hand on the Bible but object too. If someone is an aetheist they maybe not believe in the word of christ so they may object to taking an oath to God.

You make a great point. I believe we need to teach tolerance.