# Nations With Official (or Unofficial) Theocratic Tendencies

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nations-with-official-or-unofficial-theocratic-tendencies/507921 "2009-08-27T16:17:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nations-with-official-or-unofficial-theocratic-tendencies/507921/73 "2009-08-31T23:02:09Z")

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> [@Apollyon](#):
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> If a US presidential candidate said: “if you’re asking me if I’m religious it depends how you define religion\*”, and stated that he did not believe in life after death, would it have a positive, negative, or no effect on his election chances?
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> (\*quote from current NZ PM John Key).

Highly negative. I don’t think we’re going to see a US president who isn’t a Christian for at least another 50 years. An atheist/agnostic president? At least another century.

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