Before I can answer this question, “Why our politics cannot be freed from Religion,” I must first define what is politics and what is religion. Politics is the managing of government and public affairs. Religion is simply a means of worshiping of a higher being of life.
Religion is a faith in something that cannot be seen with human understandings. To me this question does not make sense. How can two things that are not even parallel be a conflict of each other? Power has to be the root cause. The meaning of power regarding this issue means a position of authority.
You Shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. --Emerson, Journals, 1842
Where is the power is religion? Since faith is in a spiritual world, how can religion have power? Just the same the history of Europe was put in a dark age with a good number of people being tortured and burned to the stake due to the power of the Roman Catholic Church. Today in the 21st Century, we are having power hungry people killing others in the name of religion. If God is love no matter what kind of religion, how can people do this?
The grab of religion is the best cloak for power --William Hazlitt, “On the Clerical Character,” Political Essays (1819).
When politicians grab religion, than corruption follows. Even when laws are set to protect freedom of church and state, it does not mean anything when this corruption is in place. Rightfully politics and religion are two separate things. They are not similar or one cannot live without the other. The physical world and the spiritual world are two different realities, and they should not merge.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. –Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (1825), 1.189
Religion hates science and science hates religion. This appears that they are opposite of each other. That is not so. They both ask the same question, “Why am I here in life?” They are separate, but they are answering the same question. One does it in the spiritual plane of life, and the other does it in the physical plane. One cannot out do the other, or one is more important than the other.
How I think, the question should be, Why do we have religion in politics, and politics in religion?” Even in the 21st Century, we still are just as bad as the Roman Catholic Church was in the Middle Ages/Dark Ages. Until we learn to separate the two, politics and religion, we will never grow up. We will continue to repeat history until we do.
Brandon Bowers
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