Like former Afghani regime or Iran's regime.
is it becuase they were used as a tool during the cold war without paying proper consideration to it's anti-civilisation and anti-civil liberty side?
2006-09-12 00:52:49 · 13 answers · asked by Better life @ Better world.com 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion has always tried to control the people. Before civil law religion was the politics. The catholic church controlled most of European civilization for hundreds of years. The church of England had total control of Briton for some time. It has only been recently that civil law has begun to replace religion to control the masses. Religion is involved in all politics in every nation. Yes in the USA as well. It should not be but try and tell the religious nutters that.
2006-09-12 01:52:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, before you use words like anti-civilisation and anti-civil liberty, why don't you do some research. The Islamic empire at the time of its glory in the past was a center of learning and peace. Jews preferred to live under Muslim rule!!! Every society has it's down turns and we are just going through one.
Islam is a complete religion and deals with every aspect of life. The form you see it in Iran or Afghanistan is something imposed literally without understanding the spirit of the law. Every religion has gone through it, The church only recently got separated from the state. It seems you have very little knowledge of the blood soaked history of Europe.
2006-09-12 01:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Fez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference between Religion and Politics.
Moses was a political leader.
King Henry VIII set himself up as the head of a religion.
The Japanese Emperors were belived to be gods.
2006-09-12 00:59:33 · answer #3 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religeon has always been in politics. It is simply a set of values by which people choose to live their lives as is capitalism and communism. The problem lies in the fact that none of these have much tolerance for the others so harmony is difficult to achieve.
2006-09-12 00:58:21 · answer #4 · answered by Chris J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. Religion in politics. That's completely unlike The Vatican, or England of the past.
2006-09-12 00:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by drink_more_powerade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a tool that the US used during the cold war yeah.
i remember when the US used to call Al Qaida freedom fighter of Afghanistan and they also used the term Mujahedeen or Jihadists.
i remember those days very well.
2006-09-12 01:00:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
american chrisitians can't have it both ways - they can't say "islamic countries are into politics" and then claim that the US was founded by christians and have the ten commandments everywhere, etc etc, and then claim that "Christianity is not the decider of foreign relations".
So that in mind, if any RELIGION seeps through a country's action, it is because the ruling class, not necessarily the majority of the populace, holds dear to that as their main source of guidance.
2006-09-12 02:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by DEP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree that religion is politics, like Capitalism and Communism. Capitalism, for example, believes more in concepts (freedom and diversity) than religion, which obviously tends to believe more in holy figures who set rigid rules to follow.
2006-09-12 00:59:48 · answer #8 · answered by skapunkplaything 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, I think you'll probably find that politics got involved in Islam. But every religion is involved in politics in some way, its the way we live.
2006-09-12 01:09:31 · answer #9 · answered by Canary Yellow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only religion just went away, then the world can see peace.
2006-09-12 00:59:21 · answer #10 · answered by John R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋