[Debate] Religion and Politics should they mix?

[sasori345]

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[theRPGdude]

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Haha love it!

 

[narutokage99]

Let me use the outdated cliché of “religions are the cause war and conflict” and show how war and conflict are not unique to religions. In the relatively short history of secularism the following massacres have committed in the name of non-religious ideologies such a communism, nationalism and social-Darwinism:

70,000,000 under chairman Mao
20,000,000 under Stalin
2,000,000 no longer exist because of Pol Pot
700,000 innocent Iraqi’s in the current occupation
500,000 Iraqi children in the 10 year sanctions

So it can be clearly seen above that war and conflict are not religious monopolies, rather they are human phenomena and not unique to religion. As Professor Stephen L. Carter argues in “Civility”:

“[T]he statement that wars have been fought in the name of God is a non sequitur. As the theologian Walter Wink once pointed out, more people have died in the twentieth century’s secular wars than in the preceding fifty centuries of fighting combined…. No religious war in history, not all the religious wars of history added together, did as much damage as this century’s wars of nationalism and ideology.”

 

[Black Adam]

Let me use the outdated cliché of “religions are the cause war and conflict” and show how war and conflict are not unique to religions. In the relatively short history of secularism the following massacres have committed in the name of non-religious ideologies such a communism, nationalism and social-Darwinism:

70,000,000 under chairman Mao
20,000,000 under Stalin
2,000,000 no longer exist because of Pol Pot
700,000 innocent Iraqi’s in the current occupation
500,000 Iraqi children in the 10 year sanctions

So it can be clearly seen above that war and conflict are not religious monopolies, rather they are human phenomena and not unique to religion. As Professor Stephen L. Carter argues in “Civility”:

“[T]he statement that wars have been fought in the name of God is a non sequitur. As the theologian Walter Wink once pointed out, more people have died in the twentieth century’s secular wars than in the preceding fifty centuries of fighting combined…. No religious war in history, not all the religious wars of history added together, did as much damage as this century’s wars of nationalism and ideology.”

Don't forget Imperialism another country encroaching on foreign lands by enslaving and killing the natives then pillaging all of the natural resources then leaving said country a desiccated husk of it's former self.

But in any case if the church were to take an even bigger role in politics than it already does then they gotta give up that tax exemption.

 

[drknght]

Religions may be different but they share the same principles. It's praising the God or someone special. It's obeying the rules. It's opposite to making everyone equal.

Politics and religion don't mix.

 

[Germanicus]

This has probably been brought up, but to reinforce it, separation of church and state is the best thing that should be happening to politics ever. You can end the thread right here. That should sum it up.