re: #153 Cato the Elder

On what basis? And given the general requirement that ambitious people in this country have to make gestures towards a deity, why would you not suspect Bushes I and II of the same thing?

All of this is speculation, of course. You are right that, since candidates are required to make those gestures, they are of practically no value to determine their true beliefs. I believe both Clinton and Obama (specially Obama) had a life experience more conducive to an atheist, or at least agnostic, view of the world than the Bushes. But who knows?