How do religious beliefs affect politics?

What is your religion? This question have had been asked to practically everyone in the whole world. I would tell you how I would NOT answer it. I would not answer it by saying I am a Christian. But I believe in Jesus Christ as my saviour, and that He is God’s son. I read the Bible for guidance and I go to church. So why would I say that I am not a Christian? Well first of all, Muslims would describe a Christian as an adulterous drunkard whose greed is bigger than his faith. But of course Christians would disagree and would throw an insult the other direction immediately. Well, one can’t blame Muslims for saying this because a lot of people claim that they are Christians but do things that are against Christian teaching.

Examples are politicians. They thrive to get the support of the Christian church for elections but right after winning that election, they go straight back to corrupting the government and stealing loads and load of money from the people who put him there, at that position in the first place. Of course these politicians say that the are Christians, but are they really? These politicians know that religion is a major factor in politics. Since religion penetrates the human’s use of logic and reasoning in making decisions, it is the best tool for politicians to attract voters. Religion really affects politics. An example is politics is different for areas that have different religions. We see how different the Chinese government to ours. We can see how different they handle political issues, how different they make their laws, how different they chose their political leaders and how different they handle their people. Another is that religion has its own rights and wrongs and most of the laws and punishments are derived from this. If not, the people would see a politician as unethical if they would make a law against their religion. In contrast, how different would they treat a politician that made a law that is in accordance to their religion? The point is that religion affects people and people are what politics is all about. This suggests that religion really has a great affect in politics. Certain religions have unequal treatment for the two sexes, so consequently, political issues like feminism, women rights, circumstances that would benefit one sex, would arise in this country with this kind of religion. Religion also has specific roles for certain members of a family, so consequently the government with this kind of religion would have a similar structure of power. Religion also has great power over media, and media is one of the windows to politics.

For me, religion is a really big part of politics. Though religion may not predict what would happen in politics, religion might not be enough for politics to function greatly, it is a major contributing factor to the existence of political issues and other parts of politics. It may be a positive effect like a baseline amount of rights for people, animas and the environment, or negatively like have discrimination in laws and biases in the sex of the political leaders. Politics can use religion and religion can use politics. So where does this put us? I think, knowing this, that it is really up to the person on how they would let their religion affect their own brand of politics. Will you use this relationship wisely or use it to your benefit?

What Happens if We Dont Think in Human Terms revised

In the movie, avatar, the main character Jake said something while he was telling the Na'vi's what's going to happen next. He said that he came from a world different from that of the Na'vi's. he came from a world where there is no green and because they have killed their mother. in this case, Jake was really thinking outside human terms. He was outside what humans in this movie intend to do. He was aware of what happened because people were only thinking in human terms and this lead to their world having no green in it and having a dead mother earth. And although he was not thinking for the environment, he might as well as be since he was thinking in an alien's perspective. Why? Well, humans nowadays have full control of the world and everything on it that everything on the world other than humans would might as well be considered alien. How they are now, what they have become was not what they should be. Animals are used and reproduced to suit human needs and wants. Plants were killed and turned into things only beneficial to humans. Animals and plants do not belong to this kind of world, not in this world on humans at least, such, they might as well be aliens. This is what thinking in human terms is like. But what if we think not in human terms? We would be outside selfish greed, capitalistic thinking, we would be more aware of what is happening around us.

The world would always thrive to achieve balance. A state where everything would be at homeostasis. so people thinking in human terms would push this world to reach a balance that would lead to losing its capability to sustain life. So to prevent this, one must think not in human terms. One big problem in thinking in human terms is that, this would consequently lead to the new generations to be indifferent to the things that are happening around them. They did not see how much change really happened because they were not there, and so they become indifferent. People tend to small things that are happening and would only care if it would be a very obvious sign that this change is threatening their way of life, and only then do they act, and more often, by this time, the damage would be massive enough. We were thinking in human terms when we started the industrial revolution, that lead to new diseases, this changed the world. we were thinking in human terms when we decided it was okay to use coals as a source for energy, pollution resulted, the world changed because of this. The bulk, if not all, of our history, we have been thinking in human terms, when do we stop?

For me, we humans should feel that we are accountable to everything that is happening. We should feel about this at one point and look in this perspective at another point. Not only do we address the fact that we need trees, but we must also address the issue of what happened now that we have a lack of tress. This is only an example of what would happen if we think not in human terms. There have been new improvements to the thinking of not in human terms. There is a new term in psychology, the term EI, or environmental intelligence. This measures one person's ability to see and predict what would happen if they would do something to the environment. For an example, one would have a higher EI if they knew what happens to their trash, where would it be placed, would there be recycling, would it be burned, if it would be burned what would happen, etc. Our EI, is relatively higher now compared to the past few hundred years. We are now more aware of what is happening around us. More and more people now are thinking not in human terms and changes have been happening. A number of people now accept the issue of global warming; people now are using science as a tool to help the environment where as before it was used to destroy it. People now are prioritizing the environment more than they used to. This is what would happen if we don’t think in human terms and finally, a part of human history where we can say that our mother earth is at the centre not us.

What Happens if We Dont Think in Human Terms

the first seven words in the title would suggest something negative would come out of this question. what happens if we don't think? consequently, the first thing that would come out of our minds after being asked this question is to think of something negative to parallel our answers to the presumed questions. but, need we think of this as negative?

my answer to this question is that thinking in human terms, in my opinion, is what brought us to what we are now, a thriving uppermost part of the food chain, and if we do otherwise, then how can we be greater than what we are now. in my opinion, being the best that we can be is everyone's goal, and to think in human terms implies that we simply think for our benefits to improve ourselves. but one can say that thinking for our own benefits might not be as good as it promises to be. like what if we do not think about the environment, about other animals whom we share this world with. well it is not that do no think of them, we do, in fact in that master plan of thinking in human terms, in my opinion, means that we must think ahead and prepare for the possible threats that might hit us, and to do this, we must think for the whole world as well, for their own improvement.