What do you think about religion telling us how to vote?

Question

Do you think that people's religion should stay out of politics completely or that believeing a spiritual leader knows more about politics than the average person? Do you believe that religious leaders are always right about who they tell you to vote for?
Should Christians remain neutral in political conflicts?

Answer 1

The church should remain neutral in political conflicts. Individual Christians may pronounce themselves about them. But not the church as an institution, because the church is a very powerful institution with too much influence on societies, as it is.

Answer 2

The problem with both politics and religion is that they are both a set of beliefs. Beliefs by definition cannot be right or wrong, they are just what you think. On top of that, both political and religious beliefs are naturally resistant to change, even when (especially when) faced with conflicting information. I always thought it was ironic that people who stick to their beliefs in the religious and political arena are called moral, while doing the same in the scientific arena gets you the title of irrelevant or ignorant.

Anyway, when you combine all of this with a system that inherently forces people into a right (those who believe what you believe), and wrong categories (those who disagree with you), and give people in the right category the power over those in the wrong, then you are going to end up with a LOT of problems.

So no, I don't think a religious leader knows any more about politics than the average person. They are simply more experienced in how their religion tells them they should live. By them telling everyone else who they should vote for, they are in a way trying to convert you (just without the religious ceremony).

Answer 3

Rather presumptuous a religious leader to tell anyone how to vote. Christians have a commandment to be in the world but not of the world. So I think these politically charged Christians are wrong.

Answer 4

Lots of "churches" in the US tread a thin line. If they use non profit organization postage, they cannot LEGALLY use it to encourage a PARTICULAR VOTE in a race or on an issue. They can and probably should encourage INFORMED VOTING, but anything further borders on a variety of complex legal issues.
Organizations which encourage a PARTICULAR VOTE must generally register as a Political Action Committee and have spending limits, reporting guidelines, and contribution limitations.

Any church using non-profit organization contributions to attempt to influence an election is probably violating election laws.

Answer 5

Umm, I know that the Catholic Church that I go to does not tell us how to vote, but gives us guidelines to follow. I have never heard them spouting about the specific candidates to vote for because for them to remain a tax free organization they cannot take political sides. If a church is saying exactly who the congregation should vote for, this is wrong.

Answer 6

I am a king of spritual tantra and divine and I know perfctly you will get cristians religin too and you must go to church of Lord Crist not to Miss marry because if you have not knowledge of religion mantra and tantra u can loose your strength too due to this people going one to another temple and church because they dont know and it u go crist frm there u got strength and energy and if go to another u smashing your all activities upto 1 year its u can see thanks no creteria how to vote its a matter of politics which i dont know so icant tell about that here are so many political man they can advice u

Answer 7

Very few times do religions tell you WHO to vote for in an election. If they do, they are wrong.
HOWEVER, that should not stop them from asking you to vote according to a certain guideline.
If one candidate is FOR abortion, and another is AGAINST abortion, then a Catholic priest will tell his parish this fact. Then he will ask the parish to vote their conscience.
Informing people of a certain viewpoint is a freedom held by all...even if they wear a white collar. Remember that.

Answer 8

definite, i'm. No, my non secular faith does no longer tell me to vote or now to not vote nor a thanks to vote. I pay interest to / follow the trend Jesus gave us. Our faith isn't of adult males's understanding, yet, in God's means. My faith is Christian. Jehovah's Witnesses. We stay impartial, in the political section. we are as Ambassadors in the international locations we stay in and as such we do not vote, in political elections. imagine, in the Congregation of God, some flow Democrat; some flow Republican; Now there's a branch between the Congregation. a million Cor a million:10 Paul says: Now I exhort YOU, brothers, by ability of the call of our Lord Jesus Christ that you ought to all talk in contract, and that there might want to no longer be divisions between YOU, yet that you'll properly be fitly united interior of a similar recommendations and interior of a similar line of idea. If some vote Democrat and others Republican, then we are now no longer "fitly united, interior of a similar recommendations, and interior of a similar line of idea." this does no longer paintings for the Congregation of God.

Answer 9

I think if there were no religious issues it would be one thing but sanctioning murder in one form or another demands a religious and political response

Answer 10

I don't think you should let anyone tell you how to vote.