Reply #128: Couldn't care less... [View All]

so long as the politician was prepared to treat everyone equally, and not advocate 'faith-based laws' or discrimination against citizens of other faiths or none. And so long as their brand of religion wasn't such as to inspire them to go into wars with 'God on their side'.

BTW, my own MP is openly atheist and an official in the National Secular Society, and this has never been made an issue. I think that even here it would be difficult for an open atheist to be Prime Minister, but I'm sure some atheists have been already without discussing the matter. Much less attention is paid to a PM's faith here than seems to be the case for candidates in America. The only way that it has come up recently, is that it's a fairly open secret that Blair is converting from C of E to Catholicism, but he hasn't been able to do so 'officially' while PM. Not that a Catholic couldn't be PM, but openly undergoing religious conversions while in office could create some awkwardness for a PM.