This is odd. After all, the candidates on stage were not running for House chaplain. And they will most likely be running against Al Gore. But it is more than odd. Such ostentatious religiosity is unseemly.
Public religiosity is bad enough.
Public religiosity in pursuit of political power is even worse. For those who take religion seriously, it is sacrilegious. For those who are secular, it is scary. You watch these debates, brimming with God talk, and you catch a whiff of the Taliban. The flip side of this religious parochialism is political parochialism, the weird insularity of the Republican argument in campaign 2000.