Presidents of the USA

All of the previous presidents of the United States of America all have one thing in common. Every single one of them have been characterised as a Christian. All have also used their faith within their election campaigns. Many have been 'accused' of being atheists and it baffles me that the word 'accused' has been used in such a context, as if not being religious is an immoral thing. The voting citizens of America do not seem to have any concern for their president's intelligence, qualifications, rationality or knowledge on fundamental matters. Their only concern appears to be that their glorious president believes in mythical tales which have been 'documented' in the 'good book' and that they make multiple references to God during their public speeches.

The most evident acts of hypocrisy are made by George Bush. Apparently, he is very concerned with 'morality'(his idea of it), so much so that he stated he was against abortion. Firstly, the act of abortion cannot be categorised as either moral or immoral- each case is different. It is most certainly immoral to use abortion as the equivalent of contraception, or to repeatedly cover up an affair. However, how can any empathetic human being label a 13 year old girl who was a victim of rape 'immoral' for CHOOSING to have an abortion? How can an abortion be 'immoral' if the Mother has the knowledge that her child will be severely deformed and suffer physically as well as mentally?

Anyhow, Mr Bush seems to be extremely 'pro-life' in this case. However, he contradicts this with the act of war which he instigated against Iraq. When asked how many Iraqis had been murdered by the US forces he replied with a sense of apathy and estimated it around 1 million, expressing that this number should rise and that he wasn't really 'keeping track'. Previous to this, he stated: "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."

Clearly, Christianity does not equate to morality, nor does any other religion. No president thus far has been an atheist, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or an 'adherent of any specifically non-Christian religion'. However, many glorify the idea that Obama is the first African-American to hold down the president title and feel that their world is progressing in the sense that we are moving towards 'equality'. Ethnically- yes, perhaps. But there still remains prejudice against any leader which is not Christian yet this is dismissed as a trivial issue. It's still discrimination, but on other grounds.