Should religion keep out of politics?

Question

please answer after reading these scriptures out of your bible.

Jesus said that his true followers would be “no part of the world.” (John 15:19) To worship God in a manner that he approves requires that we keep ourselves “without spot from the world.” (Jas. 1:27) Can that be said of those whose clergy and other members are involved in politics, or whose lives are largely built around materialistic and fleshly desires?—1 John 2:15-17.

being involved and uninvolved........is that like being on fire while you are underwater?

Answer 1

Absolutely, but it is the Fundamentalist Christians who delve the deepest into politics and into the laws of the land.

Answer 2

If man could respect the word of God then it could stay out of politics. But separation of church and state has abortion running rampant, hatred, drugs, covertness, greed, marriage being re-defined, and places like our prisons busting at the seams. We had a great country at one time, I think it can still be saved, but it will take putting God back in school, commerce, politics, church, and into all the places he has been fired from. The church needs to stand up.

Answer 3

We cannot escape the fact that we live in the world. Jesus was in conflict with the Roman Governance up to the last minute. He argued with them about their corrupt nature and they ended up hanging him on the cross. the message he was passing is that if the state or politics are corrupt and unjust, then religion has the right to stand up to it and say this is wrong somehow. Religion should denounce the corrupt and unjust political system.

Answer 4

No.

The Judeo-Christian tradition has been the underpinnings of our entire legal and political system.

As we drift further and further from that we find that without that religious base we can rationalize anything.

There's a general feeling that 'hard history' is coming as Peggy Noonan put it. When the political systems begin to fail and the legal system starts to break down, where does one turn without religion?

Answer 5

religion does not exist.there is no proof of anything that is said in the bible.it is just in the age and era they had nothing better to do.they were ignorant and not educated so they told the ancient peoples of the day that their hair would burn and they eventually cane up with a new invention called a towel to put on their heads to stop them burning but seriosly ,i dont believe anything that the bible/koran or any brainwashing from the religous peers say.

Answer 6

There is no separation of Church and State in the United States Constitution. The founding fathers of this nation through other writings expressed the idea that the government should stay out of the church, however a free people in order to remain free should have the moral compass provided by the Judeo-Christian values. Therefore, Christians SHOULD be bold and outspoken in matters of politics.

Answer 7

Those quotes are a distortion of the teaching of Jesus who said we should render on to Caesar what is Caesars and on to God what is God. - Jesus lived fully even when it brought him into conflict with both church and state. Anyone of faith must be involved politics if he wishes to live a full life.
However you must act from a good perspective.
Yvonne

Answer 8

I can answer this without looking at your quotes: YES!!! Religion and politics do not mix. A politician can be a Christian, of course, but he shouldn't be dominated by it, and pass legislature that's good for the people, not what is in his particular holy book.

Answer 9

Scripture aside- look at the Middle East- this is what happens when religion and politics combine.

Answer 10

yes it should b kept out of politics,i think that the only thing a christian should b involve in is the holy words and scriptures of the lord.