I don’t really care about the semantics, although it seems to me from every statistic I have seen that we are not really a Christian country; more a country which has been heavily influenced by Christianity.

Hopefully, at some point we will look forward rather than backward, disestablish the Church, get the priests out of the House of Lords and get the Queen to give up her role as head of the Church of England. Let’s get rid of state funded faith schools while we are at it.

That said, I do think it’s important that politicians come clean about their religious beliefs. It’s no good pretending that your religious beliefs don’t affect your world view, which in turn will affect your views on society and policy. They simply cannot be separated.

In the US, knowing that Mitt Romney was a Mormon would certainly have influenced me if I had been an American citizen. Surely you have to doubt the judgement of anyone who believes that Jesus magically went from the Middle East to America to spread the word and that the 10 lost tribes of Israel will one day come back and gather in Missouri!

So I am grateful to David Cameron for showing his Christian hand. I wish Tony Blair had been more open about his faith. Had I known how much he thought God was on his (and our side) I would have been even more suspicious about his foreign policy, his ideas on family and education. I am sure he is a decent man and a great believer in peace but like all religious leaders, peace only comes on Gods terms and if you don’t see the world in the same way as ‘my God’ sees it you may have a problem.

So David, we know you are a Christian and you see this as a Christian Country, now tell us how you see this influencing policy.

Specifically:

Constitutional reform
The monarchy
The justice system
Family and taxation
Discrimination laws
Foreign policy, particularly in countries where religion is the problem
Education and faith schools
Defence
Foreign Aid
Environmental policy

I’d also be interested in Gods’ views on all of the above.