The Telegraph has an interesting article about how Tony Blair didn’t feel free to express his religion in public for fear of being seen as a “nutter”:

Mr Blair complained that he had been unable to follow the example of US politicians, such as President
George W. Bush, in being open about his faith because people in Britain regarded religion with suspicion.

“It’s difficult if you talk about religious faith in our political system,” Mr Blair said. “If you are in the
American political system or others then you can talk about religious faith and people say ‘yes,
that’s fair enough’ and it is something they respond to quite naturally.

“You talk about it in our system and, frankly, people do think you’re a nutter. I mean … you may go
off and sit in the corner and … commune with the man upstairs and then come back and say ‘right, I’ve
been told the answer and that’s it’.”

Well, fair enough. I can see why you’d want to avoid people thinking you made hugely important decisions about national security and international policy based on messages from ceilingcat God. I mean, that really would be insane.