Religion and politics are beginning to look more similar each and every day. Who agrees with me?
2006-09-01 11:31:39 · 27 answers · asked by Tofu Jesus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only in the USA, in Israel and in some Muslim countries. Most other people are thankfully still sane.
2006-09-01 11:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
After thinking about it, I have decided it's the other way around in a lot of cases: modern conservative politics has been pillaged, raped and burned by religion.
Note:I do not mean this as a slam against religion at all, but I do believe a lot of modern religions insert themselves into something which they shouldn't, in a lot of areas.
2006-09-01 11:37:39 · answer #2 · answered by Phronsie 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It most assuredly has.
Religion in and of itself is poisonous. It creates a blind follower mentality that has led many people away from what the true message of God really is.
Conservative politics is even worse, with salespeople (basically) telling their customers (constituents) what to think and what to believe without giving them the benefit of thinking for themselves. In religious people, they see and entire group of people ripe for believing whatever it is the politicos have to say that even remotely corresponds with what the religious people believe.
On top of that, the last 10 years or so has seen candidates say some pretty downright nasty messages AGAINST their opponent rather than just stating what they themselves believe and will fight for. it didn't used to be like that.
Combining these two very destructive forces has resulted in a truly us/them environment in this country that is getting closer and closer to civil war. The believers and politicos against the non-believers and pacifists and regular people. Those who blindly believe what they are told by the people who SHOULD BE protecting them versus people who investigate to find the truth behind the words and believe accordingly.
Belief in God is all fine and good... truly it is. But religion bastardizes the good and manipulates it into cashflow and dogma, which then corrupts. Conservative politics has taken advantage of this for its own purposes.
2006-09-02 06:22:11 · answer #3 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man, you really should have been around at the time the Founding Fathers were alive.
Religion is and always will be ideologically unchanged by politics, even if it is changed temporarily by public policies (pillaged, burned, and raped?, let's hope it doesn't get to that).
Your question and the comment following it are logically opposed to one another, and therefore completely void your question and opinion on this subject.
2006-09-01 17:20:34 · answer #4 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Has religion pillaged, burned and raped the entire world?
2006-09-01 11:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
no it started long before there was a concervative party. religion has been warped from the get-go. it is just the concervative have really done a number on it.
i left the church when i was 17 because i began to realize how much politics in in the churches. to get anywhere in the chuch you need to know the right people. and now the conceratives are using them.
2006-09-01 11:43:06 · answer #6 · answered by specal k 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Religion is an attempt to bring people into the ideal of someone who has gotten a piece of light, and instead of setting people free, they built a following by what they have learned. The true path will lead people to their own relationship with Truth and no middle man is necessary.When I say that, I am not talking about Christ. That is not a middle man, that is the same man or Truth. The Spirit of God is that Truth is approached though the mind of Christ. That is God's creative mind and the mind that Jesus the Christ had in His ministry. That is why He says there is no way to the father but by me. There is no way to Truth but through Truth. The three aspect to that ultimate Truth is, God as the Father, Jesus as the Lord, because of who and how He came to this Planet, and what He did for us, all in Truth, and the Holy Spirit, the Teacher, and Comforter aspect of Truth, another and very important part of Truth. All the same thing in another personality. We are a reflection of that Truth because we were created in the image of Truth. Truth is the Reality and we are suppose to reflect that reality. We cannot do it until the Truth is illuminated in our spirit man and then into the soul realm. The God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit Godhead or Truth head, is not a religious thing, it is a reality thing, and as much of life as breathing it's self. Most of us have more then one aspect to our personalities. We are brothers, we are fathers and we are sons. It is much the same way with TRUTH
2006-09-01 11:56:03 · answer #7 · answered by happylife22842 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is true, and it's not a big surprise. Many times in the past religion has tried to use the power of civil government to enforce its decrees. The result is persecution against those who disagree with the state-sanctioned religion. That's why the founders of our country were so adamant that there be a separation between church and state.
Unfortunately, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. The BIble makes clear that the same thing will happen again, leading to religious persecution once again.
2006-09-01 11:45:59 · answer #8 · answered by jewel_flower 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Too few are ethically motivated enough to make either a genuine occupation. The morals bandied about by all are utilized as a means of requisitioning power by the corrupt.
I get sick to the stomach trying to find some sense in either, but I hope to be further enlightened by one who knows...
2006-09-01 11:40:58 · answer #9 · answered by CC...x 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Well that's religion&politics both are man made. Christianity is the only faith that is not a religion. So many people do not understand that. Christianity is a relationship With Jesus who is God. Nothing will ever change that no matter how crazy this world gets even if it blows up there will always be God.
2006-09-01 11:41:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Actually, I think it was religion that took advantage of conservatism first. But their descendants are so thoroughly inbred by now that it hardly matters who scored the initial conquest. And you're right -- they look alike, and they're equally ugly.
2006-09-01 11:37:07 · answer #11 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋