What is the real role of government and religion?

Question

If someone were to ask a one line answer about what the purpose of the Business is, then I would say it would be to make money. The rest is marketing.
Similar, the purpose of a Family is to raise children. The rest can be provided by the society.

Similary, What about government and religion?
What is the simple role of Government (within a country or nation) ? Is it basically to provide Law & Order & Justice - within the country and externally ? And it has just morphed and evolved and grown into providing services and healthcare and education and utilities and transportation and research and the rest? Otherwise how would it be handled if not within govt?

Similary Spirituality is to provide someone with Pure Love? (Which comes from within you or from GOD or from higher understanding or intelligence.) And similar to govt it has grown into other roles such as administration, logistics, teaching, fund raising, etc? Controlling moral, ethical, cultural and family behavior and brainwashing

Answer 1

THEY ARE THE SAME!... "POWER AND CONTROL"...

Answer 2

Greetings!

You touch upon many facets of many issues. The basic question though, speaks for itself.
It is as you can see from American politics, laughable to think there is a separation of church and state.
There is instead a push pull relationship, where one entity uses the other for their own gains.
That is it in a nutshell, the rest you talk about is argumentative at best.
Good Luck

Answer 3

Because there are so many different religions, our Democratic government is supposed to protect it's citizens from religious adversities. Together we can overcome our misconceptions, for the safety of the children.

Answer 4

the Bible shows, that true Christians do not advocate or preach democracy, socialism, communism or any other form of human government as a remedy for the world’s woes. What Christians preach is a heavenly government, the kingdom of God. And that kingdom is not part of this world. Said Jesus: “My kingdom is no part of this world. If my kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be delivered up to the Jews. But, as it is, my kingdom is not from this source.”—John 18:36, NW.

God’s kingdom is no mere social reform. It is the government that will rule the universe. To make way for the universal rule of God’s kingdom, the Bible shows, the political governments of this world must be destroyed. Not from men will come this destruction, but from God. Declared the prophet Daniel: “In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”—Dan. 2:44, AS.

So the early Christians were careful not to meddle with politics. They knew that God’s kingdom is destined to destroy all political governments and that those involved in politics would be enemies of God and hence also in line for destruction. Vigorously the early Christians preached the Kingdom hope of the world. They showed the utter futility of trusting in human rulers. The apostle Paul wrote: “Now we speak wisdom among those who are adults, but not the wisdom of this system of things nor that of the rulers of this system of things who are to come to nothing.” We are still living in what the Bible calls this “present wicked system of things.” But soon now at the impending war of Armageddon the rulers of this world will come to nothing. Those persons friendly with the world are in line for the same fate.—1 Cor. 2:6; Gal. 1:4, NW.

Jesus wanted his followers to live and not suffer destruction with this evil world. So he urged them, not to participate in politics, but to stay separate from the world. He set the example himself and always lived up to his words: “I am no part of the world.”—John 17:16, NW.

THE 2 DO NOT MIX

Answer 5

The real roles. Goverment is to guide. Religion is to control the minds of the poor and make them slaves in a legal manner.

Answer 6

the main purpose of goverment is to see that our population does not destroy itself, even though i think they are doing that for us. and the main purpose of religion is to give people hope and understanding to the world around us. hope of life after this one and understanding of why we are here how we got here and what created the world around us. these days religion is basically useless because we are now so advanced we know why and how we got here through science. now days its only used to give hope and lighten the fear of death. i dont think this is a bad thing but people get carried away and would like to think that everyone around them belives the same thing they do.