is religion gotten to political to believe?
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I vote what I believe, other than that I don't do politics.
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Not at all, it makes you someone who's actually at least a little in touch with reality. No religion is the 3rd most popular belief.
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Beck, it's called blind faith.  Like these christians that keep sending money to 500 clubs so Jesus will help them.  Get real, get off your ars and do something about your problems already.  Or better yet, send ME your money and I will prayer for you.  These narrow-minded people also made a big deal out of Dan Brown's books.  It was a freaking novel.  It said so on the front cover.  \nI don't discuss religion or politic with friends and family because I want to keep my friends and family.  \nIf you want to believe in the Bible a book that was written 2000 years ago that's your problems.  You can't disprove something that happened 2000 years ago BUT you cannot prove it either.  Let's keep in mind there are older religions than Christianity.  All religions (except Buddhism) claimed that if you believe in something else other than _______ then you're going to hell.  If that's true, there are going to be a lot of freaking people in hell.  Okay, I'm done.
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I do consider their religion when I vote only in the sense that they allow their religious institution to influence them. Otherwise, what their actual religion may be is not really the reason I vote for them. I listen to their views on different issues and their ideas for resolutions to problems on the various issues. If they say that their religion is "blank" and then say that their religion helps to guide them in the decision making process, that does not necessarily make me go "Oh no can't vote for you". Instead what I look at is how close their ties are to their religious institutions and whether they say things like "Well my religion tells me......and therefore this is how I will vote on that issue". In fact, the more they bring up "what my religion tells me" the more likely I am not going to vote for them. Reason...I've found that politicians that use the phrase "My religion tells me" are often the same politicians that are very closely tied to their religious institution and therefore what their religious institution is advocating, well it is them, not us the electorate, that they represent and listen to. If they say "Well I believe..............and I got this from what my religion teaches about............and the lessons I learned from that teaching helped me with some aspects of my plan" well the key words are "some" and "believe" and "teaches" and "lessons". The politicians like this usually hold strong beliefs, but if you look over their plans you'll see that they are not framing their religion into law, but instead have considered that others might have a different perspective. These politicians, while religious, often also do not always agree with their religious institution and will often outright say so on the areas where they disagree.
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90% of political debates,   stem cells, abortion, gay marrage   involve religion
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ALL religion should be kept out of politics. PERIOD. its just bad news. plus, how is it fair that christian holidays are federal holidays, but buddihst, muslim, jewish, pagan, wiccan, ect ARENT? politics+religion= bad news. just look at all the countries that are ruled by religion. religion has no place in politics, in my opinion
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It's not so much the religions as it is the politics of the religion. Having faith is just having a belief - it's the religious DOGMA (telling you how to live, etc.) thay causes the problems. Why everyone wants to think that everyone else should believe in their particular brand of faith is beyond me. Why can't we all just get along. Different strokes for different folks, is what I say.
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The modern politician has a number of gods depending on what he deems necessary at any given time:\n\n-the god of votes!\n-the god of money wars\n-the god of populism \n-the god of mass delusions\n-the god of political power\n\nand so on...\n\nI doubt politicians have rarely anything to do with religion per se.
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politics/religon + discussion= war
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religion or family believes.
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NO I THINK THE RELIGION WILL BE GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH CERTAIN PRINCIPLE TO LIVE TOGETHER AND GET THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER TOGETHER AND TO FIGHT WITH NATURAL CLIMAXES IN THE OLD DAYS BUT WITH THE PASSING OF TIME IT IS USED FOR THE POLITICAL PURPOSE.
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Religion plays a part in the choices you make in voting, just as every other part of who you are plays a part in every decision you make about anything.\n\nEverything we learn, experience, and believe in molds our decision making.
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Yep, wars. That's pretty much what religion has been causing for thousands of years. They can't get enough of them.
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Clearly not. Left wingers don't believe in God; so their religion is their left wing ideaology, and their high priest taking care of morals is the university professor of philosophy. God help them, and us, because they are in power.
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Be a political party or start a religion
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No------ Christians today must remain neutral and not get involved with politics in any way, shape or form. We must not put our trust in human rulers.(Psalms 146:3) \nIf we vote for any imperfect human, then we are showing disloyalty to our King, who now reigns in heaven. Our allegiance is to our righteous King, and his Father's heavenly government only. The Bible says that man was not meant to rule over man. ( Ecclesiastes 8:9 )\nWe must obey the laws of governments as long as they do not conflict with God's laws. We maintain the same position as Jesus' apostles: "But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29)\nHuman governments will soon be put out of existance and will be replaced by God's government which will rule over the entire earth. When you say the Lord's prayer and ask for God's Kingdom to come, that is what you are praying for. \nThe new government will last forever as seen at Daniel 2:44--"\n"And in the days of these kings(current human rulers) the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever."\nAs long as governments condone war and make false promises they cannot hope to acheive, we will never see peace or security. Only God's government will make that happen. (PSALM 37:9-11)   \nChristians should not put their trust or confidence in political governments or rulers that God will soon overthrow. We need to look to God's Kingdom as the only hope for all mankind.
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Not sure ..looking how religion has been the bases for so many wars and deaths..it is something to think about