The US is the most religious nation on earth. It apparently missed the Rennaisance.
US politics are driven by religious conservatives to the exclusion of those who don't believe in flying teapots.
This is unfair.
New Zealand excludes religion from politics. No politician here with half a brain would claim divine inspiration. Religion is just a non-issue.
But in the US, politicians obssess about it. Even poor Obama, who is a closet atheist, has to pretend he attends some church or other - where he no doubt offers prayers that Americans will one day see sense.
Why does such irrationality infest American politics? Or is it just a convenient conceit?