text: Interesting take on religion Jeff, thanks.  I remember all those "devout, born-agains" just loving Dubya because he was--like them--a "good Christian man."  Who laughed as he sent a born-again woman to the gas chamber as governor of Texas (setting a record for executions only broken by his numerically-challenged successor, Rick Perry).  Now we have those same "born-agains" lining up behind a thrice-wed bloodthirsty narcissistic buffoon like Trump (who, like Reagan, hasn't set foot in a church in decades), and a lying master of dirty tricks like Cruz, who fled the Catholic church, in Texas, for one with more voters.  Most Europeans have gotten past tying religion and politics.  If only we could.  God may not be dead, but she certainly has better things to do than hang out in the voting booth.  (Or kitchen table, as we fill out our mail-in ballots.)