Every president so far has been a Christian, as are most politicians. Do you think voters are, or ever will be, ready to vote for an atheist, Jew, or anyone that isn't a Christian, especially a Republican? I plan to run as a Republican for office one day, but I am also an atheist.
Every President has been nominally a Christian.
Typically candidates outside of the Deep South don't make a big deal about their religious beliefs.
If you're looking to run for public office, just nominally take up the banner of some Christian denomination. You don't actually have to go to services or belief the stuff that's spewed from the pulpit, but voters will feel more at ease knowing that you "believe" that there's a God in Heaven.
If your parents subscribed to a particularly non-offensive brand of Christianity, like Methodism or Presbyterianism (Episcopalianism or even Catholicism may be okay in CT) you can just claim that you do too! No one can accuse you of being opportunistic; after all, you were raised that way for crying out loud!
However, if your parents are non-religious or if their type of Christianity is "not okay" in CT (i.e., Pentecostalism), then you should just find a nice girl who is a Methodist or a Presbyterian, fall in love with her, convert to her faith, and then marry her. Even the nonreligious get chocked-up when they hear conversion stories like that!
Not a bad idea. But I plan on going to NH. It is most friendly to my Libertarian views, and the party fusion system won't make me decide which of my two parties to go with. How about a Satanist president? I know for a fact that satanists don't worship fire and the devil, but the majority of the general public, even non-Christians, still believe that
I've met Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Wicca, and about every variety of Christian -- the few Satanists that I have met have been very nasty people. It's Zoroastrians who have the fire temples; I have yet to meet them, but they sound OK. Satanists that I have met are horrible people. Although any religion can be perverted into something ugly, a tendency that worships evil for its own sake can get only bad results.
If I would never offer anything but contempt to a mobster or a fascist tyrant because such people leave behind cadavers and ruined people, why would I worship an entity that would destroy the Earth if it got the chance?
