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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Actually I think we are more likely to have a totally atheist regime and government...  |
Just to put in my two penneth, I neither want a Muslim PM a Christian PM or
any politician that defines him/herself by their particular brand of faith.
I don't want to see any politician in this country behaving like their counterparts in the US, whereby everything they do is followed by the words god willing, in my opinion a democracy should be atheist in that religion should play no part at all in the day to day running of a country.
As far as I'm concerned religion is already too close to politics in this country, what other western democracy has church leaders sitting in their upper or second houses with a vote on current laws? instead of worrying about the BNPs propaganda we should be more concerned about the current and up-coming religious effect on the Lords.
How much longer before we have Imam's, Rabbi's and other religious leaders demanding a seat? Whatever government faces this problem will have two choices as I see it, either to capitulate and therefore have an ever growing religious element to our "liberal democracy" or grasp the nettle and legislate that the current bishops will not be replaced when they die.