Do you think that religion has any place in politics?

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elendar said:
No.

If you can't see why religion should be a private matter just refer to the middle east.

If you still can't see why please refer to history. Crusades, Witch Hunts, Oh man there is so much!

Religion + Government = people are going to die.

There is enough religion in the world for us all to kill each other but not love each other.

There is plenty enough Religion for us to love each other, death comes when you throw politics in the mix. Crusades? Political, they wanted the land and used religion as an excuse.

Witch Hunt? Someone was doing something stupid and hid behind religion and superstition to get out of it, people got killed in the process and no one wanted to admit that they had made a serious mistake, so they just kept the lie running instead of admitting it.

Terrorism in the Middle East? small group is using religion to fuel anger over other countries being better off.

Name any problem in the world and i'll show you where it really comes down to politics. Politics will lie, twist and corrupt anything. Religion is just one of the things that has the most horrible events when it gets corrupted. But it happens to government, history, and even sciences and other schools of learning.

Religion by itself is actually quite reasonable and is pretty much the moral standard upon which the laws of the government were based on in the first place. There's a reason why the Court houses have (or at least had) the ten commandments on them.

Oh, and does anyone remember things like "In god we trust" and why you swear on the bible when testifying, and "god given rights?"  You need to have a religious foundation in order to ensure that there is always a point at which teh government cannot supercede it's own authority. By pointing out that there are "god given rights" it means that there are things that the government is not allowed to touch PERIOD. If teh government is the one that makes a law, they can change that law. so if the government was the one that gave you those rights, the government would be able to change those rights if it wanted to.