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Atheists & Agnostics

mr blur

(7,753 posts) Wed May 6, 2015, 07:17 AM May 2015

UK elections, theists to the fore

Ed Milliband (Labour leader) a "Jewish atheist"

Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat and current Deputy PM) atheist.

It would be good to have a Prime Minister who didn't even pay lip service to superstitious nonsense.

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UK elections, theists to the fore (Original Post) mr blur May 2015 OP

who didn't even pay lip service to superstitious nonsense. AlbertCat May 2015 #1

Overt religiousity is still seen as rather unseemly and odd in the UK... truebrit71 May 2015 #2

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

1. who didn't even pay lip service to superstitious nonsense.

Reply to mr blur (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 11:16 AM

May 2015

It'd be nice to even have a single politician who didn't at least pay lip service to superstitious nonsense....just one!.... over here!

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)

2. Overt religiousity is still seen as rather unseemly and odd in the UK...

Reply to mr blur (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 12:16 PM

May 2015

As it should be...

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