The Role of Religion in the American Political System
On why God has always mattered to American presidents, the public ambivalence over religious influence in political life, and Charitable Choice as the most controversial issue in the US politics.
Religion can never exist in isolation. The realization that religion concerns and shapes our fundamental view of the nature of human life has come home in politics. But where is the border between politics and religion? The trend is showing that there is no such a border. The Americans are connecting politics to the values they learn at church. The increasing role of religion in politics lately is dangerous to the democratic process and this trend needs to be stopped.
Politics has to consider the beliefs and different viewpoints of so many people while religion has its own group which it has to answer to. Religion can have these single moral judgments on things because religious groups don’t have to answer to anybody but God and their worshippers. By bringing religion into political decision, people are belittling faith. It is true that a majority of the country is Christian but it is utterly wrong to expect to shut out the voices of all the minorities who might take issue.
Both political parties make use of peoples religious beliefs to receive votes. It isn’t wrong that they say they want to uphold the people will and values because that is why people vote. What is wrong is that they are attacking each other over who is more religious, which results in a trivialization of religion.
The USA was founded to give everyone the freedoms that a free person should have including freedom of religion, and from religion. When religion mix with politics there is a violation of our rights as citizens.
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