“We need a president who [...] will pray with you and for you." - Hillary Clinton

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-kansas-baptist-address-227923

To me, such a brazen appeal to religious faith as an essential qualification for high office seems weirdly American. From a distance, my impression has been that most Canadian or modern European center-left pols would be embarrassed to speak publicly about attending a church - that in Europe, especially, an appeal to religion is something that only a fringe candidate on the right would ever indulge. Is that impression inaccurate or outdated?