Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard & Atheism

Becoming Australia's first female Prime Minister born overseas while having never married to her partner and having no kids was probably not enough for Julia Gillard to win the hearts of the local conservatives, so when asked on June 30 "Do you believe in God?", she made sure her answer would leave no doubt in their mind.

File that under "I thought it was already on The Sift".
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What I would dearly love to know, is how many politicians are really atheists. Currently it can be career suicide - especially in the USA - to admit to being so. Thankfully the tide is turning, especially with brave people like this lady. Soon the last remaining religious myths will be consigned to the history class. That is, of course, only if they do not succeed in dragging us back to the bronze age.

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