Religion and politics should not mix

i agree with you. Politics and religion is an 180 degree different.

While I agree that government should not impose any religious doctrine or dogma on citizens, I don't agree that religion and politics should never be discussed in the same conversation. The first amendment of the American Constitution reads; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It is obvious by this that the original framers of this amendment did not want government establishing a 'government religion'. But in also saying that they could not PROHIBIT the free exercise of religion, they also were saying government should not stop people from practicing their religions. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams While it is very true our founders here in America recognized the danger of giving government power to dictate to people what they should believe about God or religion, they were also very aware that if people did not have a moral base such as religon they would not be able to make the decisions necessary for governing themselves. It is only a law abiding and moral people that can truly govern and still retain freedom. It is in our world view, our belief system that we judge from. And how can we judge between right and wrong for our neighbors....governing, if we cannot judge correctly for ourselves....religion (worldview, morals, etc) I am not saying atheist cannot be moral here. It is not only faith in God that constitutes the moral worldview. I will not go into how atheism is a 'religion' in its own right (consider Buddhism with NO GOD yet a 'religion'). Our 'worldview' our 'belief system' is our 'religion'. And it is how we judge between 'right and wrong'. When we cast a vote for who will rule over us, who will govern us...we are judging who is 'right or wrong' and therefore, imposing our worldview on others, so we are in effect, mixing religion and pollitics anyway.

I couldn't agree more. I don't think that politics and religion should mix because when people make decisions about politics based on religious beliefs, then you begin to exclude people, or you begin to make decisions that might be illogical or detrimental to the situation. The problem is that many of our rules and laws are based on religious beliefs or ancient methods of doing things, and they do not always apply to the current state of things.

Nope because their to topics that cancel eachother out nad sadly us as people havent figured this out , well very few of us, but yet we still have others fighting the "good" fight smh.

To an extent, politics should care about religion, like helping out churches that do community work and stuff. But I don't agree with pushing down certain religions on our throats, giving most schools under their surveillance, using religion to get more votes and so. And no way should any religion be priviliged in schools and education. Let the kids decide for themselves and let the parents bring up/teach them how they'd like to. I mean, I know about a religios school, which wasn't even religios in the start, it was ordered by the government that the church would be the supervisor instead of the local authority, and they introduced compulsory religion classes (when there were students who didn't believe in that religion), and there was a huge scandal when a girl kissed her boyfriend in the school. I mean, there should be some morals that should be kept, but I don't see what's so unmoralistic and trashy about a single kiss.

In my opinion, politics and religion are the same thing. They are just fought in different arenas most of the time. They are both all about the same thing...Control! Deliver me from religious dogma and politics both.

It hard to see, because anything that is good u put into human being hands, sooner or later it will corrupt that goodness.Even without religion , politics can be dirty , religion is just another excuse for politicians to start war.Beside religion , people can use race,ethnics ,poor or rich classes, caste and other to suppress the will of others or persecution them.Hence i think it made no differences.

I believe religion and politics have many similarities. Both should be pure and should be with divine thoughts. What happening now is entirely opposite. People make politics with religion. And the political parties are following one religion and playing with the other by harming or abusing. Both the circumstances cannot be stopped by any means.

I would try to find out first what angle they are coming from when asking me. Why did they want to know? As soon as I found that out I would find out whether I agreed with them or not. Then I don't think I would care about mixing them. I would just care about the issue at hand. They must have had some sort of agenda.

in an entire basis, the state and religion should be separated. Some aspects of community are distinct from each other in terms of their perception. They can but noT in most cases. Let's have lawmaking bodies which are obviously part of the government and still some if their laws are based on divine laws which are taught by our religion. There are also cases wherein the interruption of deep morals can aleviate the situation of the entire community. Also, there is no definite religion and beliefs of people in one country that's why the state should be separated from religion. The government cannot be in favor of one belief and discredits the interest of the other side.