Can He Run The Country, Who Cares, Does He Love Jesus?

Must the US president believe in God?

Matt Wells looks at the Jesus factor.

On Capitol Hill, it is a sign of just how important religion is to US politics that only one member of Congress has ever admitted to being an atheist - and that admission came just a few months ago.

The BBC's Heart and Soul programme visited Democratic Congressman Pete Stark, of California, in his busy ground-floor office, to find out what reaction there had been to his declaration.

On the presidential race, he had blunt advice: "Who can say more rosaries than the next person in a certain given amount of time, hardly seems to me, to be a qualification. more .

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.
I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abe Lincoln.

Amen brother.