Atheists, would you vote for a Christian President/Prime minister if they had reasonable secular policies?

Answer 1

There are non-Christian politicians?

Answer 2

In my experience most so-called Christian Presidents/Prime Ministers of recent times are Christian in name only. They are almost totally in cahoots with the liberal, secular humanist agenda.

In Britain, our Prime Minister Gordon Brown, likes to promote his Christian credentials and his background as the son of a Christian minister whenever it suits his political aims. But if you judge him by his actions, rather than his words, you will see that he supported atheistic policy of legalised murder of babies in the womb in 16 pro-abortion votes in 1990, including 3 times for abortion up to birth for disabled babies.
His present choice of Health secretary is Alan Johnson who has voted in favour of destructive stem cell research on cloned human embryos and he has also voted against pro-life amendments to the Mental Capacity Act which enshrined in statute euthanasia by omission. When the same Alan Johnson was Education Minister, he wanted to abolish Christian schools.

The most anti-Christian policies we have ever had in Britain were passed by Gordon Brown's predecessor Prime MinisterTony Blair, who also made a big deal about being a Christian, I think Gordon must have learned something from him.

Another example is President Clinton, the least said about him, the better.
With Christian friends like these who needs enemies.

So I don't think atheists have anything to worry about when a politician claims to be a Christian, they almost invariably turn out to be Christianity's worst enemies.

Answer 3

I think one of the problems is that there is no Atheistic choice when it comes to political voting. We are forced to vote for a Christian and pay little attention to his secular views .

I am sure there are more closet atheist in politics they just need to come out and they’d get my vote. Indeed this time around when the political parties come canvassing for votes , I will make a point to raise the awareness of atheism and tell them I want to vote for an Atheist !

Answer 4

Absolutely, and I have done so many times.

Religion *should* be irrelevant in an election. For example, I'm an atheist who's finding it harder and harder to not vote for Mitt Romney in 2008. I may disagree with his religion, but I like most of policies. At least, more of his than of most anyone else's.

Answer 5

I think I always have done because the Prime Ministers we have had are not overtly religious anyway ( even though Tony Blair did make the pretence).

In the UK we are fortunate that religion does not play much if any part in politics.

Answer 6

Don't be silly.

As if atheists have a choice. They'd just vote for the lesser of two evils.

Of course since presidents (with the exception of the current jerk) are normally reasonably intelligent, a good number of them must have lied about their beliefs to get elected.

Answer 7

We usually have no choice.

One of Blair's worst characteristics is his Catholicism, and he's done great damage to the UK's education system with it.

The subject rarely comes up in UK elections. After Blair it might. Brown is theoretically aligned to some church or other, but it remains to be seen whether he will bring his deity - if he actually has one - into his politics.

He may be able to dismantle the pathetic 'faith' school system - especially the truly deranged ones with a creationist agenda. We're hoping.

CD

Answer 8

first of all, we don't vote for a prime minister, we vote for the party, they vote for their leader.
to answer your Q, as long as they had policy's that were good for the country their belief system would not matter.

Answer 9

Yes and I have: Paul Martin. He's no longer PM but I voted for him.

In terms of politics, religion (or lack there of) hold no face value. I look at the issues being addressed and what a candidate can bring to the table.

Answer 10

Yes and I have. If they make an attempt to fairly represent all the faiths and not just push theirs to the fore-front I have no problem. I vote on political qualifications - not where they spend their Sundays (or other day as that may be).

Answer 11

Since every US atheist who's ever voted has had to choose between one christian and another your question is moot in the US.

The real question should be will the US ever elect an openly atheist president? My feeling on this is that in the US we will see a black female transgendered polygamist president before we see an openly atheist president.