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Politics tamfitronics Some days ago, Andrew Copson, the chief executive of Humanists UK and president of Humanists International, posted on his LinkedIn page, “We’re so lucky to live in a country where at least most people are confident to be honest about their beliefs.” He was commenting on the nonreligious nature of the current British parliament.The post made me think about the relationship between faith and politics in Nigeria. He noted that while the US had only two nonreligious members of the congress, the UK had just elected its seventh nonreligious prime minister, and the most openly nonreligious House of Common, as its lower house of parliament is called, in history. Well, compared to Nigeria, Americans are lucky.The US has two nonreligious congress members. In Nigeria there is none. We have no openly nonreligious members...