Rise of atheism: 100,000 Brits seek 'de-baptism'

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Louie said:

One thing: I don't know about other European countries but two german chancellors have been atheists or agnostic so far: Gerhard Schröder and Helmut Schmidt (both social democrats, Schmidt is still a member of the church because he supports most of its moral views).

You could argue that Helmut Schmidt is the best politician Germany ever had and I've never seen a person with such high moral standards. Schröder changed Germany's social system to make it more future-proof even though he knew the voters would dislike him for it and he opposed Bush's anti terror wars.

There you go I'm sure there are other important atheists or agnostics in other european countries.

Well actually Lenin and Stalin.

Those are the first two i've heard of actually elected though.

As for the guys you mention... Ok.

Though every piece of info i can find on them list them as Lutheran and Evangelical.

Also the first seach result for "Gehrad Schroder Atheist" is this thread.

Same for Helmut Schimidt Atheist.

So honestly i'm not sure if i can be inclined to believe you.  Since it should be nearly impossible for this thread to be the first result in a google request on such information.  I mean you are german... but this is the kind of thing where proof should be eaisly produceable even in english so sorry for being a bit sceptical.