chruch people involve in politics what are your views?
By marketing07
@marketing07 (6266)
South Korea
6 responses
@the_ruler (1442)
• Turkey
19 Mar 08
I partially agree with you. I think their involving with the politics is not the case, the main problem is the politicians who try to take advantage of religious believes of people.
In many countries (I am in Turkey but I think it happens in every country) there are always a group of politicians who use the religious importances as an advantage for their politic ambitions. I think this is something that they should strongly avoid. Because they do that by saying they are believing on the same way with the people around and will sincerely keep their works and will provide benefits for all of them. Telling a lie about your religious belief should be a very big sin. If you doN't speak sincerely, and tell lies to other people just to gain votes (money follows it) then that means you simply neglect the importance of afterlife, therefore that means you are not a believer at all. Because a real believer would take his or her believes more importantly, and wouldn't risk himself by telling lies to gain advantage in this mortal world.
There have always been many politicians and even salesmen doing that. I heard, in the past there were priests who are selling areas from heaven! Well, they really gained money for that and they faked the people in their areas, but what about hell? How will they explain their situation to God when the time comes? Would a real believer do that? No!. Simply no. They just seem to be believers, but inside they are very different people and you should (everyone should) be away from the politicians who try to steal (or gain) something by using (or taking advantage of) your religious emotions.
1 person likes this
@marketing07 (6266)
• South Korea
19 Mar 08
yes, thats right,,i really respect religious people,,and involving some politics matter that sometimes dirty politics..i think its not good,,thanks for your reply..
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
19 Mar 08
Hello dear marketing friend. I think that religion itself is concerned with politics. Although I do not know much about politics and religion, still I think that there must be some relationship between them both. Thanks.
@marketing07 (6266)
• South Korea
19 Mar 08
yes,but i we think about dirty politics and religious people was involve..i should say i wasnt good..thanks william,,
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
19 Mar 08
If one thinks of Religion as something that a person 'has' and feels a compelling need to distribute to other people, then I would agree that religion and politics should never be mixed.
Religion is, properly, a personal thing. It is a way of describing our individual relationship with God and, because Religion is about the way that humans relate to God but (in most religions) more importantly to each other, it is already, in a sense, political. Anyone who is instructed by their religion to 'love thy neighbour as thyself' is already in a political situation.
The definition of 'religious people' is crucial. If you mean those people whose heart and mind is directed solely toward the artifical society which is bounded by their religion (so that those who agree with them are 'good' and those who don't are 'beyond the pale', 'fallen from grace'. 'infidels' or however described) then I can categorically say (and they, of course, will not agree) that those people shoulf not attempt to involve themselves in the administration of a state which contains people of many different religious and political persuasions. If, by 'religious people' one is describing people who, by adhering to a particular religion, are subscribing to the social and moral ethics which other religions also teach (in other words, social and moral ethics which are generally common to all accepted religions), then I believe that for those people to live by those standards - and even to publicly say that they do - in their political career is good. The only wrong thing that a religious attitude can bring to politics is a narrow-mindedness that is really foreign to both.
I believe that to say that religion and politics are different is really to misunderstand both. The aim of all sincere religion is to help humans to live together in the knowledge of something beyond and greater than humanity; the aim of politics is to help humans to live together in the knowledge of something which is greater than just us as individuals. A subtle, but not an incompatible, difference.
Both religion and politics are imperfect institutions. The aims (as stated above) are rarely achieved in practice and the two ways of thinking of society, which should be united in a single purpose of making it easier for us to live together, often rather provide the tinder that starts the hell fires that seek to separate us!
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
19 Mar 08
'Polis' is Greek word for cities, and therefore politics is about running the affairs of city lives... what for? For peace, development, justice etc. etc. So Church people will not do who will do? The non-church people. But we are pray and work for peace, we are to pray and work for justice etc. etc. When there is killing and corruption we just cannot sit quite and pray inside the church. We need to go out and get into business too. So I think church people need very much to be in politics.
@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
19 Mar 08
Neither politics nor religion can survive if either is mixed with the other. They need to stay away from each other.