We don't mix religion and Politics here. We used to, mind. Back in the 1700s, the Church, the Monarchy and the Government walked hand in hand. And woe betide anyone who got in the way of one, because in doing so, you'd offend all three.
Which is what I always thought you lot across the pond struggled to get away from. Wasn't that one of the main reasons your founding fathers left the mother country to create the land of the free? To rid themselves from the shackles of organized religion. And yet, as you prepare to celebrate the last Christmas of the Bush Presidency, here you are with a bunch of candidates fairly tripping over themselves to be the loudest and proudest to boast their loyalty to God.
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Your ancestors ran away from England to set up a society where the church couldn't tell them how to live their lives.
And yet God doesn't have a say in English politics today. Whereas in America, he's now got the casting vote. Happy Christmas.
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Which is what I always thought you lot across the pond struggled to get away from. Wasn't that one of the main reasons your founding fathers left the mother country to create the land of the free? To rid themselves from the shackles of organized religion. And yet, as you prepare to celebrate the last Christmas of the Bush Presidency, here you are with a bunch of candidates fairly tripping over themselves to be the loudest and proudest to boast their loyalty to God.
...
Your ancestors ran away from England to set up a society where the church couldn't tell them how to live their lives.
And yet God doesn't have a say in English politics today. Whereas in America, he's now got the casting vote. Happy Christmas.
Read more.
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