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1. Sarah Laing (sklaing@quitter.is)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 18:55:40 UTC Sarah Laing
   “We need a president who [...] will pray with you and for you." - Hillary Clinton
   
   http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-kansas-baptist-address-227923
   
   To me, such a brazen appeal to religious faith as an essential qualification for high office seems weirdly American. From a distance, my impression has been that most Canadian or modern European center-left pols would be embarrassed to speak publicly about attending a church - that in Europe, especially, an appeal to religion is something that only a fringe candidate on the right would ever indulge. Is that impression inaccurate or outdated?
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   • Biene (einebiene@quitter.is)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 19:01:58 UTC Biene

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     In Germany, the "C" in the name of the biggest party stands for "Christian", they are on the right but not on the fringe, and I don't remember any of them actually mentioning god or church, and what they usually do has not much to do with Christian values. But it somehow seems important to them or rather they believe it's important to their voters.
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   • Biene (einebiene@quitter.is)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 19:38:21 UTC Biene
     I think what they want to express that they like traditional, conservative values, and Christianity is one of those, but I don't believe the majority of them actually goes to church on a regular Sunday. But I would't know.
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