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This is a Thinking Loud Podcasts from the BBC and for more details and much, much more about thinking aloud, go to our website at BBC.co.uk. Hello. Anyone who grew up in Liverpool in the 50s and 60s was well aware of the links between politics and religion.

At my Catholic school we were encouraged to support Everson Football Club

and vote for good Catholic MPs like bootles Simon Mann.

Protestants, or so we were told, were more likely to back Liverpool in the Conservative Party and the anti-Irish home rule orange order.

Well, there were no doubt some on both sides who felt evangelical about the divide who positively revel in the chance to disrupt the Big Orange

Lodge March on July this wealth or the St Patrick's Day Parade on the 17th of March.

But such hard lines seem to have weathered with time.

Nowadays, if we're looking for a link between religion and politics, it's almost inevitable that we will turn to America,

where the relationship, if anything, seems to be getting even closer.

And there's no better example of this than the political role currently being played in the

U.S. by the so-called evangelicals, those Protestant Christians who emphasize the importance

of being born again and affirm the absolute authority and veracity of the Bible.

But although this group is frequently cited as enjoying considerable political influence,

there hasn't until now been little hard evidence about the number of US citizens who

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