2006-06-30 02:35:34 · 12 answers · asked by toastposties 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The answer is yes. Evangelical Christianists are deeply effecting our politics. It is detrimental to freedoms and liberty, but it is healthy in politics for them to participate.
Those that disagree - and I'm one of them - need to do their part to counter them.
2006-06-30 02:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by WBrian_28 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are. The government was founded on religion. "In God we trust" is on almost every political saying around the US. When some kids dad got pissed because the school was making him say the "Pledge of Allegiance" in class, he sued the state to get it taken out. That is ridiculous! I am a Christian and I believe in saying the pledge, but at the same time, I believe there are many different religions in the US that don't say anything with God in it. My opinion dealing with that is DON'T SAY IT! I think that the US needs to let this go and quite trying to make the country fit everyone that is complaining. When people come here, they need to conform to us, what is written in the law and what has been for a long time, not the other way around. I am not going to Mexico and telling them that I'm a Baptist and that is what I what I want the country to become. When I hear of schools taking out the Prayers, Pledge or classes that teach the concept of Christianity, why do my kids lose what they are taught because someone else doesn't believe that and its not fair to for them not to have that anymore. If it is a situation where they have be in the US for a while and they have different beliefs, then just don't do it. The United States was founded on religion over 200 years ago, why change now.
2006-06-30 02:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by brittme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another way that religious groups negatively affect the body politic is by suppressing reason and distorting the way the human mind perceives reality.
This is manifest in lower education among religious people, misunderstanding verifiable cause and effect in the world and misguided solutions to many social, political and economic problems.
For example, those who believe that "God" creates all things are certain that "God" created cancer and the disease is his will. This will discourage the faithful from trying to find cures, hence killing medical progress in its tracks.
Leaders will manipulate the faithful by saying that their wars are "God's" will, when in fact the war might be for the benefit of their rich and powerful political supporters and for increasing the value of their family's oil company shares.
Democracy can't function when an antiquated, unverified and fallacious text becomes a substitute for human thought and action. The People have to think for themselves! In a democracy, men and women make the laws, not a deity.
2006-06-30 02:59:45 · answer #3 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious groups are definitely impacting our politics. Just look at our president, who thinks that he has a mandate from God to run this country. Look at how hard both parties courted the christian vote in the last election. Look at the debate over gay marriage, an issue that doesn't have much to do with everyday life in our country. All of this is detrimental to our society. I am a firm believer in an absolute separation of church and state. When religion run politics, you get the Taliban.
2016-03-26 22:56:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Religious Right-wing (mostly made up of evangelical christians) has a solid foothold in the Republican party in a bid to make the US a theocracy....that is a nation with laws based on the bible, and the christian church as the only state-sponsored religion. This will only intensify the current policies of the Bush administration, 'cause jesus needs more oil.
2006-06-30 02:48:45 · answer #5 · answered by BarronVonUnderbeiht 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are trying to change a deliberately religiously neutral constitution into a "Christian" country, and all the reasons for keeping the country neutral in matters of religion are becoming abundantly clear. Religious people, especially the "born again" variety, seem to think everyone should believe they way they do and they will spare nothing in an effort to make you do so.
As Thomas Moore observed in "A Man for All Seasons," when all the rules protecting all religious expression are cut down, and the devil turns to come after you, where are your protections?
2006-06-30 02:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They always have. Look at the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," Do you think the Creator is some tinkerer in a shop? Of course not, it is a religious belief.
I think it is definetely more beneficial than detrimental as it sets us to a higher moral standard instead of a weaker one.
2006-06-30 02:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, just the opposite. Anti-religious groups are impacting our politics.
2006-06-30 03:03:40 · answer #8 · answered by kathy059 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am happy to see the religious groups more active in politics. I feel we were leaning just a little too far to the liberal side. They are now bringing it back to the middle. I thank you all! That is what the US is all about. Checks and balances.
2006-06-30 02:40:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say it is the other way around. Politics are impacting our religious rights.
2006-06-30 02:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋