Religion and Politics Like Water and Oil

I sometimes listen to many of these Christian messages on television (Including Pastor Hagee) and enjoy many of these sermons. I have heard many say things that frankly made me very, very uncomfortable. They do not do this often but sometimes it happens. The only preacher I can say I have never heard say anything contentious, only mostly things to build people up is Joel Osteen. To be fair to Pastor Hagee I originally listened to the sermon in question and honestly the accusations against him regarding the Jews is unfair. This is another sound byte hit job.

They have taken his words out of context and made it appear as if he was saying one thing while he was not at all.

Judging from what happened in the Rev Wright issue, I am sure some people even after listening to the whole sermon will have something to complain about, so there probably isn’t any reason to try defending him. Those who will understand will understand and those who will not just simply will not.

After making the above observations, I do believe countries should separate Religion from Politics even in countries that predominantly have one faith represented within it. This gives religious leaders neutrality; because in every faith there are usually the fundamentals and then there are those who are more moderate, the fundamentals almost always believe they are right and will do anything to achieve their goals while the moderates will want to look at the other side to see if there is a possibility for co-existence.

All in all with the events of the past few months in the US it is fair to argue that religious leaders should leave the politicians to their business and politicians should leave religious leaders to remain neutral, after all to the religious leader, their commander in-chief is God first and then the president. The really wise ones have stayed out of politics and it has served them very well, was it not Jesus Christ who said, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s,” I think it is time American religious leaders took closer heed to these wise sayings!