Hey... I'm a 'Murican and I'm smart (if that's what we're calling believing in evolution these days).
As much as I want to agree with you, zombie, I can't. You can't really say that every person who believes in religion is an idiot.
Here's why: I ask you "which are better, men or women?" You, presumably, say "they are equal." Someone in, say the Middle-East (using this as an example, not stereotyping) says, "men are better." You call them an idiot. But why are they an idiot? You say all people are equal. They say men are more equal than women. You find this preposterous. They find what you say preposterous. Both of you are arguing values you've learned since a very young age. If you grew up in the Middle-East, can you honestly say that you would think men and women are equal? I don't think you could. You would have no reason to. "But they are equal!" you say, "There is no reason why one person is inherently better than another." I agree. But that's just the morality we grew up with. I tend to think it's the right morality. Why shouldn't they be equal? Well, some Middle-Easterns think differently. You think there idiots, and their beliefs have no foundation. But they see that men and women are different, physically, and they have been treated differently for centuries; so these people have no reason to suddenly think that women are equal.
Same goes for religion. Sure, there's no tangible evidence to back up the existence of a deity, but people who are religious rely on faith, on what they, and the generations before them have been taught. Sure, they've heard the arguments of naysayers, but they have no reason to believe what they've learned is false, and what their ancients scriptures said happened, never did.
Yes, there are a lot of religious people who are dumb. But it's not always because they believe in creationism. When it is, it's people blindly religious (and some people too religious [but that's a topic for another time]). People who believe in a god because, well, everyone else does. Those people are idiots, and they've never truly considered the issue. But people who were brought up to believe in a divine power through faith do so not because they are stupid, but because that is, and always has been, part of the foundation of their beliefs.
By the way, sorry to anyone I might have offended by comparing religious people to sexists.
As for religion in government, we live in 'Murica, you're an idiot if you think religion should play any role.