waverider: The Messiah...
At times, as an alien looking in, I do not understand what the religion discussion is all about. It sometimes reminds me of the AtomicBob crowd when they refer to the "fat boy"; It's utterly useless and, really, totally off the subject.
The other day I talked on the phone with a Spanish friend of mine. She favored Hillary Clinton because she thought it was a bout time that a women came to power.
I disagreed with her. Upon asking me why I said:
"...To me it is not important whether the candidate is a women or a man, whether the candidate is black or white and that I would hope the electorate would look at it in the same way..."
What I did not mention it that telephone conversation was that "...I would also hope that the electorate would elect the most capable candidate independent of his chosen religion..."
By the way, there were ample comments about how pious GWB was and he played that card very subtly during his election run... and what do we have now?